Quotes By 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
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
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
Robert Graves
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
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves
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
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves