All Robert Fitzgerald Quotes
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.
Robert Fitzgerald
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Robert Fitzgerald
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The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
Robert Fitzgerald
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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
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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 piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
Robert Fitzgerald
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I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
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I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
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