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 ….

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it..

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..

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 an….

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 ….

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 mo….

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing..

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know..

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

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin..

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most d….

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppo….

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..

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 to….

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 tra….

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 t….

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….

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary..

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us..

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….