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.
ROBERT GRAVESFor words of rapture groping, they”Never such love,” swore “ever before was!”
More Robert Graves Quotes
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
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There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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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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Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
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But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
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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.
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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
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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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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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Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
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There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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