Robert Graves Quotes

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.

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

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good—in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.