Quote by Robert Fitzgerald
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one lang

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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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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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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I didnt have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didnt have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didnt know where to put it. – Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadnt meant my answers literally. – Calvin Trillin

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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. – Amy Tan

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