In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. — 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
