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.

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

There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and ...

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

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation o...

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

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to ...

When the immense drugged universe explodesIn a cascade of unendurable colourAnd leaves us gasping na...

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire ...

I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read...

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

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s...

Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man,...

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the ...

England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wil...

I love, therefore I am.

Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they’re dimmed and blighted. Today, love is j...

But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipp...

It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Indep...

Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They...

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp ...

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in...

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if ...

Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Pea...

Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointles...

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

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude...

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

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is t...