Robert Graves quotes

" There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either. " # Poetry and Poets

" Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. " # Poetry and Poets # Grammar # Language

" What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. " # Finance # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. " # Poetry and Poets

" The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. " # Awards # Poetry and Poets # Satisfaction

" A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. " # Reputation

" 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. " # Science and Scientists # Poetry and Poets # Language

" The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. " # Writers and Writing