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 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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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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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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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry

I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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Poetry

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. – Richard Rosen

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Poetry

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Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool. – Prince

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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. – Jack White

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. – Andre Breton

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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. – Henry David Thoreau

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