Robert Graves Quotes

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

The dead may speak the truth only, even when it discredits themselves.

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

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and — if he is lucky enough — know the love of an honest woman.

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.

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

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

Even nowadays an archaic sense of love-innocence recurs, however briefly, among most young men and women. Some few of these, who become poets, remain in love for the rest of their lives, watching the world with a detachment unknown to lawyers, politicians, financiers, and all other ministers of that blind and irresponsible successor to matriarchy and patriarchy — the mechanarchy.

Trench stinks of shallow buried dead All fear, all faith, all hate, all hope.