A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

Quote by Robert Graves

Topics: End Of The World Quotes

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

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

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight,...

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight,...

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

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

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of...

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of...

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental...

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental...

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done...

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done...

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

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

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of...

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of...

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

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

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of...

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of...

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of...

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of...

Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if...

Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if...

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

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

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no...

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no...

What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as...

What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as...

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the...

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the...

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is...

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is...