Robert Fitzgerald Quotes

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.

- Robert Fitzgerald

Tags

Question | Bring | Work | Imagination | Language |

comments powered by Disqus

Random

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

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

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