--- In [email protected], merudanda <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> would love to see the source [:D] of this quote
> in English or original German
Spent about half an hour trying to track it down on the
Web, couldn't.
However, I did find a *German* Web site that attributes
it to the poet *Rumi*, in "Das Lied der Liebe" ("Song of
Love"). It cites a German publication of Rumi's works by
that name. The German version of the quote:
Ihr sagt, er scheint verrückt zu sein -
Das kommt daher, weil die Musik,
zu der er tanzt,
für eure Ohren nicht geschaffen ist.
Sure sounds like something Rumi would have written.
Nietzsche most likely quoted it at some point, and it's
been misattributed to him ever since.
FWIW, Rick's attribution, to "Monet," is also wrong. The
quote is sourced all over the Web to an *Angela* Monet
(not the French painter), but there are no other
references to her on the Web except in connection with
that quote. Looks like someone with that name submitted
it to a quote site, possibly without any attribution, but
she signed her name to the submission and it was assumed
she had written it.
> --- In [email protected], Tom Pall <thomas.pall@> wrote:
> >
> > And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by
> > those who could not hear the music." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
> >
> > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Rick Archer rick@ wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane
> > > by those who could not hear the music." Monet
