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From Quotes by Robert Graves
- Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
- Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
- 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.…
- Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature…
- Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the…
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