Robert Graves Quotes

• His eyes are quickened so with grief, He can watch a grass or a leaf Every instant grow.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Uncategorized

• There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Inspirational

• What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Finance, Warm, Human

• To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

  Robert Graves

  Tags in Poet, Condition, Profession

• Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Support, Book

• One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Heart, Matter

• 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.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Poet, Writing, Time, Audience, Public, Person, Idea

• Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Progressively, Like, Marriage

• In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Love, Sports

  Tags in Maintain

• If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Poetry

• If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Girl, Good, Deserve, Despair

• Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Situation

• 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.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Work

  Tags in School, Poets, Forget, Language

• A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mental, Prevention, Complete, Medicine

• A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shakespeare, Good, People, Really

• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader’s attention or check his habitual pace of reading – he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

  Robert Graves

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Intuition, Logic

Robert Graves (37)

Birth:	24th July, 1895
Death:	7th December, 1985
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Soldier

About

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works.

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