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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product."
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
Explore more quotes by Robert Fitzgerald
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition."
"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."
"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."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
"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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