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Robert Fitzgerald Quotes
Page 2 of 2Robert Fitzgerald
October 12, 1910 - January 16, 1985
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author
|  Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible. | | Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce. | | I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. |
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