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.
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it. - Robert Fitzgerald
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
- Robert Fitzgerald
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppo… - Robert Fitzgerald
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppo…
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 … - Robert Fitzgerald
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 …
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… - Robert Fitzgerald
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…
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story - Robert Fitzgerald
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. - Robert Fitzgerald
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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… - Robert Fitzgerald
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 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… - Robert Fitzgerald
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…
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… - Robert Fitzgerald
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…
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