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Robert Fitzgerald
American
October 12, 1910
Author
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Revelation
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Doing
Myself
Does
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Our
Will
Make
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Know
Would
Go
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
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He
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.
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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