Freedom Quote by Robert Graves

““You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat.””

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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,…

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She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away…

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“As quick as boiled asparagus!”

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“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…

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To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

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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…

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“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…

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

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The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting,…

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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…

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

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“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…

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