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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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'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
— Sarah Palin
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The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or…
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The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school,…
— Unknown Author
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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the…
— Gabrielle Roth
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A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions…
— H. L. Mencken
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The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
— Antonio Machado
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It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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