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Poetry Quotes by Robert Graves
- The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
- 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…
- A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in…
- I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other…
- There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
- The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
- 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…
- Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
- Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has…
- 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.
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery