Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald - Page 1

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Muse
Stories
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Poetry
Elegance
Revelations
Most
Least
Revelation
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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Thinking
Two
Way
Begin
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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Language
Voice
Seemed
Voices
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I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Grateful
Thinking
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Latin
Use
Vocabulary
Element
Inevitably
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I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Homer
Oral
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Doe
Particular
Performers
Comparable
Performer
Translator
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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Courses
Knows
Translate
Translating
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Bob
Dylan
Guitar
Heard
Invention
Meant To Be
Song
Tradition
Belongs
Bob Dylan
Meant
Homer
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Available
Notes
Pope
Should
Vast
Edition
Homer
Indeed
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In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Over You
Poet
Way
Shoulder
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Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Gifted
Although
Languages
Particularly
Oddly
Slow
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That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Extraordinary
Myself Me Keep
Touch
Helped
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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Quality
Oneself
Way
Wish
Finds
Poems
Reproduce
Wishes
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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Encouragement
Discouragement
Facts
Needs
Poet
In Fact
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Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Light
Neglect
Scene
Weather
Wind
Direction
Homer
Landscapes
Yes
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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Imagination
Strange
Taken
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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 houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Impact
Odyssey
Rocks
Sea
Thinking
Winter
Below
Homer
Houses
Mediterranean
Shaken
Storms
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Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Different
French Language
Greek
Latin
Understood
French
Imperfectly
Suppose
Quantities
Spoke
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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 the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Direct
Interaction
You Can Do It
Otherwise
Poem
Understands
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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 certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Character
Ears
Pages
Tongue
Breathed
Ear
Formed
Homer
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Beauty
Handsome
Piercings
Satisfaction
Seems
Wish
Appear
Began
English
Equivalent
Except
Piercing
Unusually
Yours
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Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Art
Different
Principles
Understood
Dealing
Formed
Work Art Way
Grown
Medium
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Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Men
Heart
Inspiration
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