Robert Fitzgerald

“I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.”

“Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.”

“In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.”

“I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.”