There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

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.

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.

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.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

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