"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make……" — Robert Fitzgerald
"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
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24 Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald has 24 quotes on this site.
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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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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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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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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the…
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work…
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work…
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's…
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
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