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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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"If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination."
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"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"
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"The life of people who do not know their destiny becomes an infinite chain of activities that in fact do not actually mean anything for their success."
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"Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling."
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"You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."
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"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."
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"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."
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"Whatever I 'align'' myself with are the very things that will create a 'line' into my future."
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"We must be focused on the goal that God has revealed to us."
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"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."
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"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."
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"Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek."
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"Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too."
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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 don't know."
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"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
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"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."
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