The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Quote by Robert Graves

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that...

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is...

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is...

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially...

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially...