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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,…
• Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
• I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that…
• I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
• Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those…
• I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
• In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how…
• Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem…
• In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
• One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did…
• The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to…
• Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some…

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