Question for my Fellow Writers

So, after reorganising my giant writing and poetry libraries on here and realising how much I have written (and how much remains largely unread) I am questioning this;

Is it acceptable to reuse lines from old poems in new ones?

I am asking because I wrote this rather epic 10 minute read a long time ago👇

And I appreciate that 10 minutes is way longer than most people will ever spend reading a poem. Upon rereading it, I realise there are some true gems of lines in there and it just feels such a shame that they won’t be read by more than 6 people!

Which then led to me to considering using some of them to craft a new poem with.

What is your opinion on this?

Should they stay where they are or can they be reused? Sometimes new songs contain lyrics from old songs… is this the same? Or is there something in doing this that takes away from the integrity of the original (and new) poem?

I would definitely appreciate your opinions on this topic! Have you ever reused lines from a poem of yours? How do you feel about doing this? If you read a poem and recognised a line from that poet’s past work, what would you think about that?

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