Robert Fitzgerald Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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