I read this in some academic journal in the late 90s.
When I speak, the question to be asked is: who speaks, and from where?
Anyone who knows whose quote it is?
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I read this in some academic journal in the late 90s.
When I speak, the question to be asked is: who speaks, and from where?
Anyone who knows whose quote it is?
Do you remember the name of the magazine?
It sounds very Zen to me, so I would start there.
I don't know who said it though.
Maybe Joshu?
“I never said half the crap people said I did.”
thats yogi berra, free. although I think maybe the operative word was "stuff" and not "crap."
Hi, Bounty
free was complaining about an interference in his/her account, so one doesn't know who is posting.
bounty, I have found it here: https://quotefancy.com/quote/762916/...ple-said-I-did
im skeptical that's albert Einstein free, despite the webpage saying so. the site didn't give an actual reference or context, plus its hard to imagine Einstein saying "crap" too.
there are only two quotes im aware of that are attributed to him---the really famous one about the definition of insanity (which im skeptical of!) and when I was a kid I used to have a poster of him that said "imagination is more important than knowledge." very few people would be able to connect him to that quote, if he did indeed say it.
so id be wondering what's his basis for saying such a thing? who is running around quoting all sorts of Einstein? hmmm...
the actual yogi berra quote apparently goes like this: "I never said most of the things I said."
Thanks, bounty. "I see what I see."
“To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.”
if you already had this conversation elsewhere free, I missed it----it seems like the problem could be solved with a change of password yes?
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
Lol... my guess (Woody Guthrie) was way off ... here are some of Gus's works: https://www.google.com/search?client...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Here's an easy one: "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
"Am I writing too loud for you?"
No idea... Dorothy Parker ??
I have no idea, either. I found it on the internet long time ago. Now, I cannot.