241 Quotes by Robert Graves

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

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

One smile relieves a heart that grievesthough deadly sad it be,and one hard look Can close the book that lovers love to see.

No escape, / No such thing; to dream of new dimensions, / Cheating checkmate by painting the king's robe / So that he slides like a queen.

Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull.

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.

Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls / Married impossible men?

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell uponThe trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.