Quotes by

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. Thats worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess Ill split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded. – Robert Fitzgerald

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just dont know. – Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald

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