Robert Graves Quotes

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

Poetry, Money, Either

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

Marriage, Money, Devalued

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

Good, Women, Men

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

Love, Finance, Human

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

Love, Status, Amateur

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

Heart, Different, Same

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

Good, Spite, Remarkable

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

May, Used, Common

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

Science, Forget, Made

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

Genius, Situation, Answers

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

Money, Poetry, Neither

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

Time, Money, Single

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
Robert Graves

Show, Support, Books

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

Good, Spite, Remarkable

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

Rather, Poet, Condition

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: July 26, 1895

Died: December 7, 1985

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