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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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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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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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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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That is what I did with Jack, and thats why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. – David Amram

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Poetry

The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. – Sylvia Plath

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Poetry

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. – Giorgos Seferis

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