The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
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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.Robert Fitzgerald
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Robert Fitzgerald
Yes, well there again, the work of the imagination originally came out of a particular air that blew over a particular body of water.
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Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it.
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.
Robert Fitzgerald
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