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Facts about Robert Fitzgerald

Occup.Author
FromUSA
BornOctober 12, 1910
DiedJanuary 16, 1985
Aged74 years

Summary

Robert Fitzgerald was a famous Author from USA, who lived between October 12, 1910 and January 16, 1985. He/she became 74 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection. Our collection contains 23 quotes who is written / told by Robert.

Related authors: Robin Williams (Comedian)

23 Famous quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Small: The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between ones making a poem in English
"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"
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Small: Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation
"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation"
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Small: Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and languag
"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"
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Small: Well, maybe so, although I dont think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it
"Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages"
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Small: What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was d
"What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing"
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Small: There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know"
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Small: The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-grant
"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"
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Small: I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin
"I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin"
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Small: I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homers sea in houses that w
"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"
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Small: Homers whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never
"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"
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Small: Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great qu
"Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek"
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Small: That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary l
"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"
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Small: One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a
"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"
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Small: 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"
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Small: 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"
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Small: The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of somethin
"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"
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Small: In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, no
"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?"
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Small: Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with,
"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"
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Small: 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"
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Small: Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us
"Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us"
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Small: Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force o
"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"
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Small: Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard
"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"
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Small: Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a fe
"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"
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