Quotes by Robert Graves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#Sports

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

#Earth

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

#Intuition

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

#Literature, #Writers

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

#Money

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

#End Of The World