That is an excellent point you're making! To copy one person is to be a copycat, but to draw ideas and inspiration from 100 or even 1000 individuals, tweaking their nature and altering it to compliment your own individualism, is to master the art of creating yourself. With that in mind, would you be able to pinpoint any artists I draw inspiration from, or did I do a good enough job to find my own style by now?

I really like your comment, but what I was aiming at here is quite different. This train of thought came from viewing my poetry as a paintbrush of some sort, with which I paint the world around me - this is just one of my takes on Schopenhauer's idea of the world being our representation. The implication with this, in my eyes, that the world you craft around you, and the art you create and surround yourself with, tend to develop patterns, and cycles form more often than not in those patterns. With that in mind, you come to see that what you pen and express (through art in this case) manifests itself around you, thus making the idea of the world being your own representation (or creation) even more interesting. As we realise that the world we experience is the world we think of and create, we see how one-dimensional we get at times; there is a repetition to our thoughts, and when it seems like no new ideas or any excitement are present, we experience dullness and boredom. To regurgitate the past - and this can be done out of grief, ignorance, or even bliss and longing - is to place a monochrome filter on your creation, I believe.

These thoughts of mine go on and on, and I believe I could write on end about this, but I'll leave it here and hope it made some sense.

Thanks for commenting and stopping by!
Cheers!
Luka K.