Explicit answer is given for the HOMFLY polynomial of the figure eight knot$4_1$ in arbitrary symmetric representation R=[p]. It generalizes the oldanswers for p=1 and 2 and the recently derived results for p=3,4, which arefully consistent with the Ooguri-Vafa conjecture. The answer can be consideredas a quantization of the \sigma_R = \sigma_{[1]}^{|R|} identity for the"special" polynomials (they define the leading asymptotics of HOMFLY at q=1),and arises in a form, convenient for comparison with the representation of theJones polynomials as sums of dilogarithm ratios. In particular, we construct adifference equation ("non-commutative A-polynomial") in the representationvariable p. Simple symmetry transformation provides also a formula forarbitrary antisymmetric (fundamental) representation R=[1^p], which also passessome obvious checks. Also straightforward is a deformation from HOMFLY tosuperpolynomials. Further generalizations seem possible to arbitrary Youngdiagrams R, but these expressions are harder to test because of the lack ofalternative results, even partial.