The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Ned Rorem, (Oct 23 1923-____), US composer; He won the 1976 Pulitzer for his Bicentennial commission Air Music, and published many diaries.