I don't believe in originality. It is just one more fetish made in our time, which is speeding dizzily to its collapse. I believe in personality reached through any language, any form, any creative means used by the artist. But out-and-out originality is a modern invention and an electoral fraud ... For my part, I keep up my own tone, which gathered strength by its own nature as time went along, like all living things.
-Pablo Neruda, Memoirs