Such An Enormous Thing

I just realized how similar allusion is to plagiarism. The poet uses works of other men’s imagination to make thoughts more clear. For instance, I think the sentence “I’ll ask them about the weather or how the weather used to be” was pretty apt in my previous entry. It is indeed a lyric stolen by one of my poetic heroes John K Samson. Now, is my use of that sentence plagiarism of his work or allusion to his work?

ps. A brief apology to John K. Samson if such is plagiarism… and can I have your autograph? Thanks.