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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
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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
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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
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
- Robert Fitzgerald
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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
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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
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I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
- Robert Fitzgerald
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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
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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
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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
- Robert Fitzgerald
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
- Robert Fitzgerald
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