End of the world Quote by Robert Graves Download Open image “A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.” — Robert Graves ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare End of the world Poetry
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does. — Bin Ramke Copy Share Image
It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock Never want for food or fire Always get their heart's desire Jingle pockets… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Entrance and exit wounds aresilvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood. The one-armed… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Manticor in Arabia (The manticors of the montaines Mighte feed them on thy braines.--Skelton.) Thick and scented daisies spread Where with surface dull like… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Is it necessary to recall that the earth is not infinite, and that our civilization is close to having invaded all of it? The… — Gabriel Tarde Copy Share Image
“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
People always wonder when the world is going to end. I believe that the world will end when everyone stops loving. — Nichole Fickes Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When I come home from work, if I just played a really good game and I'm on top of the world, I think changing… — Kirk Cousins Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The planets survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
