Robert Fitzgerald Quotes
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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement…
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Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
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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 one…
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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
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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 his…
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I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
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In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go…
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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…
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
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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…
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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…
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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
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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 it…
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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…
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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
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Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was…
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
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Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That…
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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