War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck…

Quote by Robert Graves

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Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much...

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much...

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving all...

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving all...

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is a passionate intuition.