“ But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not b… Robert Graves
“ 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
“ To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. Robert Graves
“ Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against… Robert Graves
“ What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. Robert Graves
“ To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought. Robert Graves
“ Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if we think we are whole in mind and soul and body. Robert Graves
“ Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified t… Robert Graves
“ And what thoughts or memories, would you guess, were passing through my mind on this extraordinary occasion? Was I thinking of the Sibyl's prophecy, of the omen of the wolf-cub, of Pollio's advice, or… Robert Graves
“ I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. Robert Graves
“ This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. Robert Graves
“ Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp it.""What do you mean, girl?""I mean that people don't kill their butts. They are cruel to them, the… Robert Graves
“ Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frockNever want for food or fireAlways get their heart's desireJingle pockets full of goldMarry when they're seven years oldEvery fairy child may k… 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
“ As I walked out one harvest nightAbout the stroke of One,The Moon attained to her full heightStood beaming like the Sun.She exorcised the ghostly wheatTo mute assent in Love's defeatWhose tryst had no… Robert Graves
