Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce. — 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 seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it… — 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
“Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
