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

~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.

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

~Robert Fitzgerald

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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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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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I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 12th, 1910

Died: January 16th, 1985

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