To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
ROBERT GRAVESFact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
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Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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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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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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There is one story and one story only.
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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
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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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Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.
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The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.
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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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She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away as soon as their money was spent. She said that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it.
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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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Any honest housewife would sort them out, Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
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Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
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Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart’s desire.
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