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There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated. — Robert Breault

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. — Robert Graves

This is a story of what I was, not what I am. — Robert Graves

There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either. — Robert Graves

One smile relieves a heart that grieves. — Robert Graves

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. — Robert Graves

Wakeful they lie. — Robert Graves

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight. — Robert Graves

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate — Robert Graves

The child alone a poet is:
Spring and Fairyland are his. — Robert Graves

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. — Robert Graves

With eager dragon-eyes; — Robert Graves

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. — Robert Graves

The Argonauts looked at one another in amazement and exclaimed with one voice: 'Hercules! — Robert Graves

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire ... — Robert Graves

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly. — Robert Carlyle

Augustus ruled the world, but Livia ruled Augustus. — Robert Graves

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight — Robert Graves

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. — Robert Graves

As quick as boiled asparagus! — Robert Graves

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again. — Robert Graves

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. — Robert Graves

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. — Robert Graves

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. — Robert Graves

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. - Robert Graves — Robert Graves

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. — Robert Graves

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. — Robert Graves

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work. — Robert James Graves

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? — Khaled Hosseini

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out. — Robert Graves

there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth. — Robert Graves

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return. — Robert Graves

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams - mad but interesting. — Robert Graves

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity. — Robert Graves

Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike. — Robert Graves

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. — Robert Green Ingersoll

But [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone's orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing. — Robert Graves

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. — Robert Graves

I think,' said Arete with warmth, 'that to go to sleep on a problem which one is too lazy to solve is a most foolish procedure. — Robert Graves

As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever. — Robert Graves

He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about. — Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. — Robert Graves

There is one story and one story only. — Robert Graves

A song? What laughter or what song
Can this house remember?
Do flowers and butterflies
Belong to a blind December? — Robert Graves

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. — Robert Graves

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason. — Robert Graves

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! — Robert Browning

Peleus lived to a good age and survived his famous son Achilles, an initiate of the Centaur Horse fraternity, who was killed at the siege of Troy. — Robert Graves

Those that can't beat the ass, beat the saddle. — Robert Graves

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers. — Robert James Graves

Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers. — Robert Graves

Yet let me warn you to beware of the one-sandalled man: he will hate you, and before he has done his hatred will make mince-meat of you. — Robert Graves

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him. — Robert Graves

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction... — John Julius Norwich

Time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble — Robert Graves

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money. — Robert Graves

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!" — Robert Graves

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves

I don't answer questions about conjectures. — Robert Graves

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? — Robert Graves

You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat. — Robert Graves

When plotting revenge, you should dig two graves - one for your enemy, and the other for yourself — Nathan Robert Brown

Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black. — Robert Graves

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. — Robert Graves

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money — Robert Graves

True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. — Robert Graves

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting. — Robert Graves

I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much. — Robert Graves

Life is detours, collisions. — Robert C.J. Graves

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. — Robert Graves

I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me. — Robert Graves

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill. — Robert Graves

English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin. — Robert Graves

You're all scum and you know it — Robert Graves

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. — Robert Graves

I love, therefore I am. — Robert Graves

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then. — Robert Graves

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. — Robert Graves

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat — Robert Graves

Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible. — Robert Graves

You've read of sunsets rich as mine. — Robert Graves

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves

There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either. — Robert Graves

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if we think we are whole in mind and soul and body. — Robert Graves