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Robert Graves
Profession : Novelist
Birth : July 24, 1895
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves
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.
Robert Graves
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
Robert Graves
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Robert Graves
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
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
Robert Graves
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Robert Graves
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
Robert Graves
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.
Robert Graves