Robert Graves

Robert Graves: Anthropologists are a...

Robert Graves: Anthropologists are a...

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples...

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Robert Graves: A well chosen...

Robert Graves: A well chosen...

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as...

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Robert Graves: To be a...

Robert Graves: To be a...

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Source: Horizon.
-- Robert...

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Robert Graves: One gets to...

Robert Graves: One gets to...

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

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Robert Graves: Prose books are...

Robert Graves: Prose books are...

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Source: On...

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Robert Graves: Civilization has gotten...

Robert Graves: Civilization has gotten...

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception,...

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Robert Graves: Intuition is the...

Robert Graves: Intuition is the...

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

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Robert Graves: To bring the...

Robert Graves: To bring the...

To bring the dead to life
Is no great magic.
Few are wholly dead:
Blow on a dead man's embers
And a live...

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Robert Graves: Nine-tenths of English...

Robert Graves: Nine-tenths of English...

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand...

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Robert Graves: Never use the...

Robert Graves: Never use the...

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me....

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Robert Graves: I believe that...

Robert Graves: I believe that...

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to...

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Robert Graves: Poetry is no...

Robert Graves: Poetry is no...

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household...

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Robert Graves: When the days...

Robert Graves: When the days...

When the days of rejoicing are over,
When the flags are stowed safely away,
They will dream of another wild 'War...

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Robert Graves: The thundering text,...

Robert Graves: The thundering text,...

The thundering text, the snivelling commentary.

Source: Ogres and Pygmies
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Robert Graves: If there's no...

Robert Graves: If there's no...

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Source: speech,...

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Robert Graves: Take your delight...

Robert Graves: Take your delight...

Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark - a shining space
With the grave's narrowness,...

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Robert Graves: Love is a...

Robert Graves: Love is a...

Love is a universal migraine
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.


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Robert Graves: As for the...

Robert Graves: As for the...

As for the Freudian, it is a very low, Central European sort of humour.

Source:...

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Robert Graves: In love as...

Robert Graves: In love as...

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

Source:...

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Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

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

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