Quotes by Robert Graves

Robert Graves

English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist

Alive from: 1895-1985

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary)

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

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

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  Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

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

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

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