"Her image was my ensign: snows melted, Hedges……" — Robert Graves
"Her image was my ensign: snows melted, Hedges sprouted, the moon tenderly shone, The owls trilled with tongues of nightingale."
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site.
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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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More Ensign Quotes
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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I…
— Rick Santorum
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For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
— Len Cariou
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Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and…
— Abraham Coles
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Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink…
— John Flanagan
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In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going…
— Jacky Ickx
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