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Robert Graves Quotes: "There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting."

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.



Robert Graves Quotes: "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.




Robert Graves Quotes: "Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them."

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.



Robert Graves Quotes: "The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.




Robert Graves Quotes: "Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight"

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight



Robert Graves Quotes: "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."

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.



Robert Graves Quotes: "What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."

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




Robert Graves Quotes: "New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return."

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.



Robert Graves Quotes: "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."

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.



Robert Graves Quotes: "To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."

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



Robert Graves Quotes: "One smile relieves a heart that grieves."

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples."

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.




Robert Graves Quotes: "Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth."

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.



Robert Graves Quotes: "If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.



Robert Graves Quotes: "The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight."

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.



Robert Graves Quotes: "As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever."

As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.



Robert Graves Quotes: "This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love."

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.



Robert Graves Quotes: "A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.



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

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



Robert Graves Quotes: "Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child."

Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.



Robert Graves Quotes: "As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned."

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."

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



Robert Graves Quotes: "We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall."

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.



Robert Graves Quotes: "One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.



Robert Graves Quotes: "A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.



Robert Graves Quotes: "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.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out."

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire."

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.



Robert Graves Quotes: "The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites."

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties."

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace."

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.



Robert Graves Quotes: "No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least."

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.



Robert Graves Quotes: "No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing."

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.



Robert Graves Quotes: "In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained."

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



Robert Graves Quotes: "The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again."

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike."

Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale."

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.



Robert Graves Quotes: "I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people."

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.



Robert Graves Quotes: "When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!"

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!



Robert Graves Quotes: "Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by."

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.



Robert Graves Quotes: "Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.



Robert Graves Quotes: "For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!""

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"



Robert Graves Quotes: "Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony."

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.



Robert Graves Quotes: "The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say."

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.



Robert Graves Quotes: "You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?"

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?



Robert Graves Quotes: "About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return."

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.



Robert Graves Quotes: "He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made."

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.