There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
ROBERT GRAVESOriginally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.
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What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.
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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
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The poet’s first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.
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You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
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You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
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One smile relieves a heart that grieves.
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New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation – in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.
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Love at first sight’some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely at the surprised heart So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
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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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