All Robert Fitzgerald Quotes
- 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… Discouragement
- Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story Inspirational
- 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… Case
- I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin. Begin
- 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… All
- I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it. Been
- 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… Feel
- 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… Another Medium
- In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. Element
- 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. Amount
- 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… Belongs
- 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… All
- Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us. Inspirational
- 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… Bring
- 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… Another Language
- There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. Course
- 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… Certain
- What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. Comparable
- 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… Changes
- Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Elegance
- I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Call
- That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I… Extraordinary
- 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 the… Direct
- Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my… Fact