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
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – 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
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
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. Im very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and Id save it for like five months. And then Id spend it on Christmas presents. Id save up like eight pounds. Its nothing, but we did that. – Gemma Arterton