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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#clocks #get #going #making #our

You can stroke people with words. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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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? ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#feel #go #him #how #looking

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

— Robert Fitzgerald

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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. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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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. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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