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"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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"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."
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"I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true."
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"For years I wanted to be older, and now I am."
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"From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you."
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"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."
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"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."
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"Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion."
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"The cup that went down under has now come up again."
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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."
Encouragement


"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


"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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"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
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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."
Language


"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


"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
Language


"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


"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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"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
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