Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald

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.

Heart

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Men

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.

Character

Ears

Pages

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.

Impact

Thinking

Winter

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

Grateful

Thinking

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

Thinking

Two

Way

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?

Over You

Poet

Way

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

Latin

Use

Vocabulary

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.

Encouragement

Facts

Needs

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.

Art

Different

Principles

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.

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Way

Wish

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Greek

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Knows

Language

Latin

Light

Men

Muse

Needs

Notes

Over You

Pages

Particular

Performers

Piercings

Poet

Poetry

Pope

Principles

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Revelations

Should

Song

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Strange

Taken

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Translate

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Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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