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.

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 that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

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.

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

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.