“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.” WholeCharacterLanguageSawsPagesTraditionEarsTongue Author:Robert Fitzgerald
“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.” WayArtDifferentProblemLanguagePrinciplesHeardUnderstoodMediumsDifferent WaysWorks Of Art Author:Robert Fitzgerald
“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.” WayHappensCoursesLanguageWishQualitySeriousOneself Author:Robert Fitzgerald
“Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.” LanguageVoice Author:Robert Fitzgerald
“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.” PersonsUsedLanguageImaginationTakenStrangeGrantedTaken For GrantedTaking Things For Granted Author:Robert Fitzgerald
“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.” KindHardSeemsLanguageWishBeautySatisfactionHandsomePiercings Author:Robert Fitzgerald
“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.” WellsDifferentMatterCertainLanguageUnderstoodGreekSpokesLatinQuantityFrench Language Author:Robert Fitzgerald
