Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Stuart Fitzgeraldwas an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 October 1910
CountryUnited States of America
beauty wish piercings
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.
translate courses knows
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
latin greek different
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.
doe performers particular
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
wind weather light
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.
stories muse
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
inspiration heart men
Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.
poetry elegance revelations
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.