"Poetry is at least an elegance and at…" — Robert Fitzgerald

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

— Robert Fitzgerald

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24 Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need…
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in…
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or…
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself,…
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and…
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount…
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something…
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and…

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More Elegance Quotes

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What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001… — Julie Burchill
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken… — Coco Chanel
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. — Giorgio Armani
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a… — Oleg Cassini
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra

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