Robert Graves quotes Born: 07/26/1895 Died: 12/07/1985 Country: united_kingdom

• What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. (Robert Graves) [perversion/human/love]
• 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) [thing/people]
• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. (Robert Graves) [award/gold/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)
• If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. (Robert Graves)
• 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)
• Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. (Robert Graves)
• From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies. (Robert Graves)
• Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work. (Robert Graves)
• Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers. (Robert Graves)
• We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before. (Robert Graves)
• 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)
• 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)
• Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. (Robert Graves)
• In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. (Robert Graves)
• One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. (Robert Graves)
• Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. (Robert Graves)
• The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. (Robert Graves)
• There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. (Robert Graves)
• To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. (Robert Graves)
• What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. (Robert Graves)

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