Best Quotes by Robert Graves (Top 10)
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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
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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.
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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
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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.
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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More Robert Graves Quotes
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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
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This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
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Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
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