[Ads-l] Every fool is not a poet =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=French translation request

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks for sharing your translation, Tim.
Garson

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Tim Stewart
<timoteostewart1977 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, typo in the strict translation:
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> Where it says:
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> But having to come to know you,
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> Please delete the first "to"
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> Read excerpts from the forthcoming *Dictionary of Christianese
> <http://www.dictionaryofchristianese.com/>*
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> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Tim Stewart <timoteostewart1977 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Introductory phrase:
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>> It is said about the poet Theophilus
>> that he was once at the house of a great lord
>> where there was a man who was said to be a fool,
>> and thus a poet.
>> And Theophilus devised this impromptu verse.
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>> Here's a rather free translation of the quatrain:
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>> Let me tell you:
>> All poets are fools.
>> But having met you, I have to add:
>> Not all fools are poets.
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>> Here's a stricter translation of the quatrain:
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>> I avow to you
>> That all poets are fools;
>> But having to come to know you,
>> Not all fools are poets.
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>> Tim "high school French plus Google" Stewart
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>> Read excerpts from the forthcoming *Dictionary of Christianese
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>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:55 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
>> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> References such as the "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" and
>>> "The Yale Book of Quotations" list the following poem under Alexander
>>> Pope's name:
>>>
>>> [Begin excerpt]
>>> Sir, I admit your gen’ral rule
>>> That every poet is a fool:
>>> But you yourself may serve to show it,
>>> That every fool is not a poet.
>>> ‘"Epigram from the French" (1732)
>>> [End excerpt]
>>>
>>> Here is an earlier instance in French ascribed to "Theophile". Perhaps
>>> the referent was Théophile de Viau who died much earlier in 1626.
>>>
>>> [ref] 1715, Le Passe-Tems Agreable, ou Noveaux Choix de Bons-Mots, de
>>> Pensees Ingenieuses, de Rencontres Plaisantes, Third Edition, Quote
>>> Page 267, Jean Hofhout, Rotterdam. (Google Books Full View) link
>>> [/ref]
>>>
>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q8QsYJ9_oAC&q=%22fous+ne%22#v=snippet&
>>>
>>> [Begin excerpt]
>>> On rapporte du Poête Theophile,
>>> qu étant allé chez un grand Seigneur, il y avoit
>>> un homme qu'on disoit fou, & par conséquent
>>> Poête, & que Théophile fit cèt inpromptu.
>>>
>>> J'Avoûera avec vous
>>> Que tous les Poëtes sont fous;
>>> Mais sachant ce que vous êtes,
>>> Tous les fous ne sont pas Poëtes.
>>> [End excerpt]
>>>
>>> If you wish to be helpful please share a translation of the passage
>>> above. I am particularly interested in the introductory words. Follow
>>> the link to see the original page image. The spelling is odd.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Garson
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