Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather.… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
