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One Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald
- 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…
- I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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