Das Sinngedicht | Durchlaucht, ich anerkenne Dero Regel

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possibly by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) and possibly by Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

Translation © by Barbara Rufer

Epigram

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.

Text Authorship:

possibly by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
possibly by Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Joel Weiss , "Epigram", 1994 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jürg Wyttenbach (b. 1935), "Epigram", 1964, from Two Nonsense Verses, an Epigram and a Madrigal, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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GER German (Deutsch) (Barbara Rufer) , "Das Sinngedicht", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Das Sinngedicht

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

 Durchlaucht, ich anerkenne Dero Regel,
 Ein jeder Dichter ist ein Flegel,
 Doch zeigt Ihr eignes Beispiel umso lichter:
 Nicht jeder Flegel it ein Dichter.

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Based on:

a text in English possibly by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) and possibly by Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 25