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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.

Robert Fitzgerald

Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.

Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald

Born: October 12, 1910

Died: January 16, 1985 (aged 74)

Bio: Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin.

Known for:

Spring shade; poems, 1931-1970 (1971)
The third kind of knowledge
In the Rose of Time (1956)
Mediterranean Style

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