All Robert Graves Quotes
- Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. All
- The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. Attains
- The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight. Art
- There is one story and one story only. Crafts
- 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… Afterwards
- 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… All
- 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;… Agreed
- 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… Accessories
- No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias… Acceptance
- Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. 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… Account
- Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill. Art
- 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… Battalion
- 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.… Account
- 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.… 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… Age
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Attempts
- 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
- Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. Answers
- Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason. Blotting