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Love Quotes by Robert Graves
- There is one story and one story only.
- Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
- Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
- Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
- With eager dragon-eyes;
- What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
- In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
- To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
- When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of…
- She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out…
- Love at first sight'some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely…
- Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and…
- Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and…
- Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
- For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
- I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel…
- If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
- War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had…
- And love went by upon the wind As though it had not been.
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide