"If there's no money in poetry, neither is……" — Robert Graves

"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained."

— Robert Graves

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75 Quotes by Robert Graves

Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
There is one story and one story only.
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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 Amateur Quotes

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. — Ben Affleck
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to… — Sam Abell
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer… — Arthur Harry Church
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has… — Brooks Atkinson
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development… — Marshall McLuhan
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who… — Alfred Stieglitz

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