"Homer's whole language, the language in which he……" — 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 his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear."
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24 Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald
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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need…
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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…
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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
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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,…
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Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and…
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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…
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something…
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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and…
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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
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