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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: 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: 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: 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: Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

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.

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

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

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: 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: 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.