I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
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,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock Never want for food or fire Always get their heart's desire Jingle pockets… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Entrance and exit wounds aresilvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood. The one-armed… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Manticor in Arabia (The manticors of the montaines Mighte feed them on thy braines.--Skelton.) Thick and scented daisies spread Where with surface dull like… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
