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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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"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
"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
Poetry
"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."
Direction
"Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce."
Quality
"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
"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
Language
"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."
Now
"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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"In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on."
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"Be an encourager not a pacifier."
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"Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable."
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"Let me be in your inspiration."
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"Life can be spent in an atmosphere of continuous encouragement, you will ignore the complex and it will disappear."
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"The world is with you."
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"The mentality of a believer is a mentality of a person who believes in the victory already provided by God even if it cannot be seen now."
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"If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow."
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"To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful."
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"Encouragements are persuasive words."
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