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robert frost, classic late bloomer, wrote ts eliot a letter (unprompted) saying 'the problem with you is that you know 13 languages and all these texts but noth
by awinter-py 6y ago
robert frost, classic late bloomer, wrote ts eliot a letter (unprompted) saying 'the problem with you is that you know 13 languages and all these texts but nothing about human experience'
eliot, an early genius, responded 'the problem with you is that you're stupid'
- cafard 6y agoThat has a distinctly apocryphal look. But thank you, I had forgotten how old Frost was when his first book appeared.
- awinter-py 6y agoyeah, have never seen the direct quote myself either. I got it from david galenson, a labor economist who wrote a book about late genius https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0304/features/index-poetic.html https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0304/features/index-poetic.htm...