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Quotes by Robert Graves

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
– Robert Graves
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.
– Robert Graves
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
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
– Robert Graves
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
– Robert Graves
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
– Robert Graves
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
– Robert Graves
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
– Robert Graves
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
– Robert Graves
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
– Robert Graves
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
What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
– Robert Graves
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