Able Quote by Robert Graves

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

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

“As quick as boiled asparagus!”

— Robert Graves

“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

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

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

“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

“The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his.”

— Robert Graves

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

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

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

— Robert Graves

“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