"True influence consists in surpassing one's model not in reproducing it."
— René Taupin

January 1, 1970

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L'Influence du symbolism francais sur la poesie Americaine(de 1910 a 1920), Champion, Paris 1929 trans William Pratt and Anne Rich AMS , New York 1985