Best Quotes by Robert Graves (Top 10)

  1. To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
  2. There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
  3. Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
  4. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
  5. There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
  6. 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.
  7. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
  8. 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.
  9. Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
  10. 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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