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Quote by Robert Fitzgerald
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. - Robert

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

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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 dont know. – Robert Fitzgerald

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relationship
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Robert Fitzgerald
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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

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Imagination
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Robert Fitzgerald
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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

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Translation
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The older Ive got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. – Reynolds Price

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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. – Bobby McFerrin

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To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. – Phyllis McGinley

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