Originality

A thousand thoughts are borrowed--
No, a million--as I read Emerson
Talk about Shakespeare.
"Were his lines borrowed?"
Nay, only his themes. That's what Emerson means.
And why not? Fruitful mind,
It is ejaculated once more,
"It is the logos!" and from that
We find an accumulation of knowledge
Of men standing on the shoulders of Giants
Finding wild grasps at truth.
Yes... I evangelize... yes it is a Pilgrim's Progress...
But joyful hope, that there is great learning
And great mysteries to comfort the people.
That Christ, as Lewis said, should be come to
Like one might come to a Foreign Myth
With such wonder at the man Christ Jesus...
Not any other thing... just that man I point to
And now understand, He is my rabbi and no other.
All things of Emerson, all things of Shakespeare
All things of Ptahhotep, all things of Muhammad
All things of Ovid and Homer and Virgil
And my courses on logic, and literary theory,
All things of John Green and Jordan Peterson
And my Dad, and my friends, and my beloved enemies 
---What lessons should I take from them?---,
And my college and grade school professors and their lectures,
They are brought to Him, and then inquired at the altar
"What use shall I make of them?"
And Christ gives me the form...
And if I be a poet, it is that muse alone, so I sing it.