"The function of poetry is religious invocation of……" — Robert Graves
"The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites."
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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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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain…
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every…
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It…
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us…
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to…
— Richard J. Foster
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If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human…
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been…
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