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Robert Graves quotes: The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. 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 quotes: This is a story of what I was, not what I am. This is a story of what I was, not what I am.
Robert Graves quotes: There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either. There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves quotes: One smile relieves a heart that grieves. One smile relieves a heart that grieves.
Robert Graves quotes: One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
Robert Graves quotes: Wakeful they lie. Wakeful they lie.
Robert Graves quotes: The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight. 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 quotes: I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
Robert Graves quotes: The child alone a poet is:Spring and Fairyland are his. The child alone a poet is:
Spring and Fairyland are his.
Robert Graves quotes: Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.
Robert Graves quotes: With eager dragon-eyes; With eager dragon-eyes;
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The Argonauts looked at one another in amazement and exclaimed with one voice: 'Hercules! The Argonauts looked at one another in amazement and exclaimed with one voice: 'Hercules!
Robert Graves quotes: Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire ... 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 quotes: Augustus ruled the world, but Livia ruled Augustus. Augustus ruled the world, but Livia ruled Augustus.
Robert Graves quotes: 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 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 quotes: The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Robert Graves quotes: As quick as boiled asparagus! As quick as boiled asparagus!
Robert Graves quotes: The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again. The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
Robert Graves quotes: Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
Robert Graves quotes: Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity. Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.
Robert Graves quotes: New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return. New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
Robert Graves quotes: The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams - mad but interesting. The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams - mad but interesting.
Robert Graves quotes: there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth. 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 quotes: What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out. Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
Robert Graves quotes: Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves quotes: Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Robert Graves quotes: There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. - Robert Graves There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. - Robert Graves
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about. 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 quotes: Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Robert Graves quotes: There is one story and one story only. There is one story and one story only.
Robert Graves quotes: A song? What laughter or what songCan this house remember?Do flowers and butterfliesBelong to a blind December? A song? What laughter or what song
Can this house remember?
Do flowers and butterflies
Belong to a blind December?
Robert Graves quotes: Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. 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 quotes: Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason. Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Those that can't beat the ass, beat the saddle. Those that can't beat the ass, beat the saddle.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting. There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money
Robert Graves quotes: In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers. Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers.
Robert Graves quotes: I don't answer questions about conjectures. I don't answer questions about conjectures.
Robert Graves quotes: Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
Robert Graves quotes: For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!" For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
Robert Graves quotes: There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money. There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.
Robert Graves quotes: Time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble Time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble
Robert Graves quotes: As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me. I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.
Robert Graves quotes: You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
Robert Graves quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
Robert Graves quotes: There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either. There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.
Robert Graves quotes: This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Robert Graves quotes: You've read of sunsets rich as mine. You've read of sunsets rich as mine.
Robert Graves quotes: Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible. Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
Robert Graves quotes: Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat
Robert Graves quotes: The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. 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 quotes: You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much. You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.
Robert Graves quotes: I love, therefore I am. I love, therefore I am.
Robert Graves quotes: If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves quotes: You're all scum and you know it You're all scum and you know it
Robert Graves quotes: English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin. 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 quotes: Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill. Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

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