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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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"Aimless life leads to depression."
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"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."
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"On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space."
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"If the goal is unknown, then abuse is inevitable."
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"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning."
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"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."
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"We must be focused on the goal that God has revealed to us."
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"Do not pay attention to difficulties and life's troubles, you only need to believe."
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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
"In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?"
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"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise."
Heart
"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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"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
"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
"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
"Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us."
Language
"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear."
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