"I think it was lucky that during most……" — 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 case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below."
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Robert Fitzgerald
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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 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…
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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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