Imitation and renewal

Not every preservation of the old is an imitation, nor is every addition to the old an innovation... Rather, imitation and renewal, in literary life in particular, have principles and conditions without which preservation cannot be achieved, just as innovation cannot be achieved without them, and nothing is easier than imitation and nothing is easier than renewal in life. materialistic people; Because their material life is limited to what is available to them and what is not available to them, and what is made easy for them of life matters and what is not made easy for them, they are innovators when these many inventions occur in their lives, and when they invent these new things that are brought to them from outside, even if at the same time they do not invent. They did not invent these things on their own, but rather they use them, imitating those who invented and invented them. Taha Hussien