poetry texts, poem archive at plagiarist.com

I can't read this without crying. It's like Truman Copote's "A Christmas Memory" for me in that way. Is it not just the most exquisite thing ever written?

This is the song that led me to Lorca

and then to the world of poetry that

I thought only existed in rhymes and

meters, absolutely the most brilliant

act of plagiarism ever.

As Cohen never attempted to claim the work as original and credited Lorca how can it be described as plagiarism?

Yes... it's NOT. And I will just add that I really like knowing what Cohen's inspiration was -- if he hadn't acknowledged Lorca, for instance, I may never have found him. Not that you always "know" exactly what your inspiration is -- you may just have a lost snippet floating in your brain or you may even come up with the same image as someone before and not know it, but if you DO know, I think it only enhances your own work to point that out. Maybe I'm stupid.

I didn't mean to call it plagiarism. He was indeed inspired by Lorca, and it is
the most fruitful works inspired by another that I know of. It is almost as good on the page as it is in song.