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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
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
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
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
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
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
— 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
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
Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.
— 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
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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
There is one story and one story only.
— Robert Graves
A song? What laughter or what songCan 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
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
— Robert Browning
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
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
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money
— 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
Life is detours, collisions.
— Robert C.J. 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
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
