Books Quote by Robert Fitzgerald

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…

— Robert Fitzgerald

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story

— Robert Fitzgerald

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…

— Robert Fitzgerald

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather.…

— 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…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

— Robert Fitzgerald