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"Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect."
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"The tragedy of life is when you do not know what to do with time."
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"Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction."
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"How to get back on the right track can be quite simple if you know what you want."
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"To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction."
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"It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be."
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"Put yourself in the driver seat by designing the best attitude possible to help you get where you need and want to go."
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"If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination."
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"When we set up a goal for ourselves our body start to mobilize all its strength in one direction."
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"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."
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"Everything you are called to do has already been prepared for you by God, He just needs your obedience."
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"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
Reading
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
Poems
"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
Poetry
"I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition."
Now
"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."
Work
"Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages."
Being
"That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way."
Language
"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."
Imagination
"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way."
Art
"The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer."
Music
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