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. Robert Fitzgerald appropriatefindlanguage Change image and share on social
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. Robert Fitzgerald comparablehomericperformer Change image and share on social
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. Robert Fitzgerald extraordinaryhelplanguage Change image and share on social
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. Robert Fitzgerald factgiftlanguage Change image and share on social
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. Robert Fitzgerald frenchgreatgreek share on social
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin. Robert Fitzgerald beginway Change image and share on social
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Robert Fitzgerald callhomeroral Change image and share on social
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? Robert Fitzgerald feelpoetshoulder Change image and share on social
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it. Robert Fitzgerald gratefulpart Change image and share on social
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. Robert Fitzgerald artbringdeal share on social