Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
About Robert Graves
Captain Robert Graves was an acclaimed English poet, soldier, historical novelist, and critic. He was part of the Gaelic revival and wrote extensively on Greek mythology. His works, including the acclaimed novel I, Claudius, have remained popular for decades.
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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
Never use the word ‘audience.’ The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don’t have an ‘audience’. They’re talking to a single person all the time.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)