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Robert Fitzgerald has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…
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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…
— Karl Popper
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…
— Mortimer Collins
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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as…
— Bertrand Russell
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