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Robert Fitzgerald Quotes: "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 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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story"

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



Robert Fitzgerald Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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

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



Robert Fitzgerald Quotes: "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."

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

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



Robert Fitzgerald Quotes: "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."

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

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



Robert Fitzgerald Quotes: "What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing."

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




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

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

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



Robert Fitzgerald Quotes: "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."

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.