241 Quotes by Robert Graves

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

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

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

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

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.

As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.