https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-anxiety-of-influence-9780195112214?cc=us&lang=en&
I thought this was kind of interesting. Its a book by Harold Bloom and the message is that while current-day poets accumulate a lot of their ideas from the fascination of their precursors, their creative process is hindered by essentially not wanting to be a copy cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence
There's the wikipedia if you're interested. If you scroll down to where he breaks the book up into six different ratios it's pretty cool stuff.
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