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As was the custom in such cas...

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

If I thought that any poem of...

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

There is no such thing as goo...

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

The gift of independence once...

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

When a dream is born in you W...

When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

The poet's first rule must be ...

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

There is no such thing as good...

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

I made no more protests. What ...

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

Robert Graves 120 quotes

I was thinking, 'So, I'm Empe...

I was thinking, 'So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

I was last in Rome in AD 540 w...

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

A banker warned the British po...

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.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

Anthropologists are a connecti...

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.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

Patriotism, in the trenches, w...

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

The gift of independence once ...

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

The sap of Spring in the young...

The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

The art of poetry consists in ...

The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

What we now call 'finance' i...

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

One gets to the heart of the m...

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

With eager dragon-eyes;...

With eager dragon-eyes;

Robert Graves 120 quotes

Myths are seldom simple, and n...

Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.

Robert Graves 120 quotes

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