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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
Work
Art
Problem
Language
Medium
Way
Those
Had
Principles
Another
Dealing
Understood
Heard
Up
Itself
Different
Formed
Different Way
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
Bring
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
Robert Fitzgerald
Me
You
Heart
You Can Do It
Matter
Language
Values
Otherwise
See
Direct
Seems
Poem
Between
Understands
How
Making
Interaction
English
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
Robert Fitzgerald
Great
Matter
Language
Latin
Slightly
Imperfectly
Spoke
Suppose
French
Well
French Language
Read
Quantities
Understood
However
Times
Greek
Different
Either
Which
Certain
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Robert Fripp
Language
Musical
Possible
Restrained
Fact
Spoken
Very
Representation
In Fact
Form
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.
Robert Gottlieb
Army
Genius
Training
School
Language
Some
Russian
Students
Putting
Idea
Cambridge
Came
Up
Improve
Officers
Fifties
Skills
Nearby
Early
Imaginative
Plays
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
Robert Henri
You
Wonderful
Old
Language
Made
Fall
Past
Composed
Pictures
Know
Make
Masters
How
Were
Did
Established
Conventions
Them
Help
Yours
Right
What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader.
Robert J. Sawyer
Love
Beautiful
Time
Language
Other
Evocative
Would
Phrases
Haunting
Writers
Had
Most
Reader
Stick
Description
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.
Robert Klein
Language
Important
Properly
Part
Important Part
Against
Used
Profanity
'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired by comic strips and graphic novels.
Robert Lepage
Technology
Language
Cinematic
Strips
More
Inspired
Involves
Comic
Comic Strips
Lot
Very
Than
Blue
Theatrical
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Uses
Novels
Dragon
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
Robert Morgan
Best
Language
Become
Almost
Invisible
Itself
Fiction
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan
You
Experience
Language
Philosophical
Immediate
How
How Far
Go
Discovering
Linguistic
Than
Literary
Far
Create
Less
Preoccupation
Elementary
Thing
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
Robert Morgan
Home
Language
Thought
Books
Later
Critic
Out
More
Pointed
Never
Had
Until
Am
Much
Use
Describe
Things
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Robert Morgan
Me
Writing
Language
Kind
About
Seems
Only
Poetry
Poets
Dead
Dead End
End
Itself
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Robert Morgan
Language
Definition
Poetry
Almost
Attention
Calls
Form
I didn't know the technical language of filmmaking, so I said, 'OK, I'm going to do my own storyboard,' because I had to explain to the crew and the technical people what I wanted.
Robert Redford
People
Language
Own
Crew
OK
My Own
Had
Know
Because
Said
Going
Wanted
Storyboard
Explain
Technical
Filmmaking
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
Robert Scheer
People
Language
Will
Thought
Prisoner
Own
Ways
Those
Thought Process
Always
Becoming
Issues
Been
Intensified
Just
Happened
Process
Then
Certain
Means
Your
Appeal
Presenting
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.
Robert Smithson
Language
Monumental
Mutations
Thus
Advertising
Because
Becomes
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
Robert Smithson
Language
Developing
Isolated
Occurrence
Procedure
Should
Ever
UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.
Robert Webb
Fear
Language
Responsibility
Power
Seeks
Division
Trades
Order
Reject
When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.
Robert Wilkie
Service
Women
Speak
Walk
Veterans
Language
Men
Men And Women
Military
Our
Facility
Any
Converse
Who
Unique
Military Service
VA
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
Robert Wilson
Language
Important
Resource
Voice
Wrong
Most
Always
Should
Body
Actor
Start
Leaving home early is always complicated. But when I arrived in Germany, I encountered an incredible structure built by the company that takes care of my career. They did not leave me wanting for anything. The most complicated thing was really the language. Otherwise, everything was taken care of.
Roberto Firmino
Home
Me
Complicated
Language
Care
Incredible
Otherwise
Everything
Structure
Taken
Takes
Most
Always
Built
Leave
Leaving
Leaving Home
Arrived
Encountered
Germany
Did
Wanting
Anything
Really
Company
Thing
Early
Career
I was only 19 when I came to Hoffenheim. Everything was new to me - a strange country, a foreign language. That was not easy at the beginning. Europe was a big adventure to me, and of course I had my doubts.
Roberto Firmino
Me
Strange
Language
Country
Big
Beginning
Everything
Easy
Only
Had
Adventure
New
Course
Foreign
Foreign Language
Came
Doubts
Europe
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.
Robin DiAngelo
Reality
Language
Example
White
Significance
Another
Without
How
Endeavors
Use
Whites
Many
Describe
Violence
Fragility
I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.
Robin McLeavy
Love
Comedy
Language
Dramas
Period
Well
The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.
Robinho
You
Communicate
Speak
Language
Local
Able
Football
Ball
Order
Universal
Need
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