“Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in lan...” — Robert Fitzgerald Quote

“Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.”

“Men's lives are short .”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.”

“Of course, I worry about being fashionable, although when you're fashionable you're already on the track to being unfashionable.”

“Although I'm a scratch Ping-Pong player, there is no possibility of me beating a top professional.”

“Although I am not in the thick of things when it comes to T20 cricket, but as an ODI captain, I'd like to give more stability to the players.”

“Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.”

“Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.”

“Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.”