
To Leon Goldensohn (21 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
As quoted in Values of the Wise : Aspiring to "The Life of Value" (2004) by Jason Merchey, p. 330
To Leon Goldensohn (21 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
1910's
Source: 'Piani plastici come espanzione sferica nello spazio', Carrà, March 1913
“Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.”
Remember, l. 13-14.
Source: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology
Though Keillor has been quoted on the internet and in print as having made this or a similar remark, such expressions have been made by others, and may have originated with Billy Sunday, who is quoted as having said "Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!" in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.
Disputed
Variant: Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.
“Forget whatever should be forgotten, so that you can remember what should be remembered.”
China Daily (English Edition), obituary (1999)
Quoted in "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business" in page=113.
Collected Plays (1958) Introduction, Section 2
Context: My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
“…a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it…”
"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," [an essay about the writing of the poem by that name] from Understanding Poetry, third edition, ed. Cleanth Brooks (1960) [p. 319]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)