Robert Graves Quotes

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• Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
• The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
• There is one story and one story only.
• 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 wounded…
• The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the…
• We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants;…
• The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who…
• No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias…
• Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
• To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to…
• Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
• Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in…
• Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.…
• No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream.…
• Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed…
• Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
• 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…
• Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
• Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

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