"A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves……" — Robert Graves
"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 poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even."
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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