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ROBERT GRAVESMyths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
More Robert Graves Quotes
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As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.
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One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
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Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
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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.
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The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
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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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Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
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I don’t really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn’t create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
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As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
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He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
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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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For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.
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When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You’ll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.
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There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
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