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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."
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"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."
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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
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"Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean."
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"My heart want to feel the touch.Feel the eternal love so much."
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"Feel, now let your heart be your light; imagination is your way and bliss is your destination."
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"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
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"The heart has reasons that the mind will never understand."
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"Dear heart, love everyone and anyone. Please make me nonjudgmental."
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"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."
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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."
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"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
"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
"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
"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."
Language
"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."
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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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