The phrase "The ancients have stolen all of your best ideas" is commonly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist and philosopher known for his contributions to the transcendentalist movement in the 19th century. However, the exact origins of the quote may not be definitively traced back to Emerson.
---- The ancients that wrote with the stylus were the Mesopotamians and the Greek's and Egyptians. == ==
Peg Kehret
Sherwood Anderson
ernest hemingway
Jaqiune Wilson wrote her first book in her home office, where she found inspiration and motivation to put her thoughts and ideas into words.
Aristotle
He went to china and brought back religions like Confucianism and Buddhism and more ideas
The entire Bill of Rights (First 10 Amendments) was drafted by James Madison but was taken in large part from the ideas of George Mason.
He wrote a book about his political ideology called "Meine Kampf" or "My Struggle".
It is about the Stolen Generation. When he was a boy he was taken away from his family and he wrote a song about it.
It was a combination of people and ideas. Not one person.
The poem with the line "Oaxaca and Popocatepetl have stolen his heart away" is "One Today" by Richard Blanco. He wrote it for President Barack Obama's second presidential inauguration in 2013.