In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.Robert Fitzgerald
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
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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.
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