Famous Quotes / Robert Graves
11 Quotations by Robert Graves
- 1. A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written, the world would end.
- 2. Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- 3. I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing; I owe them to my ...
- 4. I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a grea ...
- 5. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them ...
- 6. If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
- 7. Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possibl ...
- 8. The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains s ...
- 9. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people wh ...
- 10. There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
- 11. What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.