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Robert Graves Quotes

Hate and fear are not wanted here, nor toys nor country lovers, everything they took from my new poem book but the flyleaf and the covers Picture Quote #1

I protested: but all this is childish. Is there a war on here, or isn't there? The royal welch don't recognize it socially, he answered Picture Quote #1

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out Picture Quote #1

Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home Picture Quote #1

England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war madness that ran about everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language; and it was newspaper language Picture Quote #1

Faults in english prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill Picture Quote #1

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Cherries of the night are riper than the cherries pluckt at noon... In the cherry pluckt at night, with the dew of summer swelling, there's a juice of pure delight, cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling Picture Quote #1

Few are wholly dead: blow on a dead man's embers and a live flame will start Picture Quote #1

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation Picture Quote #1

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth Picture Quote #1

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest Picture Quote #1

When the days of rejoicing are over, when the flags are stowed safely away, they will dream of another wild 'war to end wars' and another wild armistice day Picture Quote #1

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again Picture Quote #1

One smile relieves a heart that grieves Picture Quote #1

When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting, chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating. Merry, merry, take a cherry mine are sounder, mine are rounder mine are sweeter, for the eater when the dews fall. And you'll be fairies all Picture Quote #1

His wiles were witty and his fame far known, every king's daughter sought him for her own, yet he was nothing to be won or lost. All lands to him were Ithaca: love-tossed he loathed the fraud, yet would not bed alone Picture Quote #1

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One, two and many: flesh had made him blind, flesh had one pleasure only in the act, flesh set one purpose only in the mind - triumph of flesh and afterwards to find still those same terrors wherewith flesh was racked Picture Quote #1

Take your delight in momentariness, walk between dark and dark - a shining space with the grave's narrowness, though not its peace Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There's a cool web of language winds us in, retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility Picture Quote #1

His eyes are quickened so with grief, he can watch a grass or leaf every instant grow; he can clearly through a flint wall see, or watch the startled spirit flee from the throat of a dead man Picture Quote #1

Trench stinks of shallow buried dead Where Tom stands at the periscope, tired out. After nine months he's shed all fear, all faith, all hate, all hope Picture Quote #1

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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 i if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman Picture Quote #1

If I were a young man and young was my lily, a smart girl, a bold young man, both of us silly. And though from time before I knew she'd stab me with pain, though well I knew she'd not be true, i'd love her again Picture Quote #1

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale Picture Quote #1

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One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Hate and fear are not wanted here, nor toys nor country lovers, everything they took from my new poem book but the flyleaf and the covers (Robert Graves Quotes) I protested: but all this is childish. Is there a war on here, or isn't there? The royal welch don't recognize it socially, he answered (Robert Graves Quotes) Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out (Robert Graves Quotes) Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home (Robert Graves Quotes) England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war madness that ran about everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language; and it was newspaper language (Robert Graves Quotes) Faults in english prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill (Robert Graves Quotes) Cherries of the night are riper than the cherries pluckt at noon... In the cherry pluckt at night, with the dew of summer swelling, there's a juice of pure delight, cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling (Robert Graves Quotes) Few are wholly dead: blow on a dead man's embers and a live flame will start (Robert Graves Quotes) Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation (Robert Graves Quotes) Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth (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 (Robert Graves Quotes) 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 (Robert Graves Quotes) Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest (Robert Graves Quotes) When the days of rejoicing are over, when the flags are stowed safely away, they will dream of another wild 'war to end wars' and another wild armistice day (Robert Graves Quotes) The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again (Robert Graves Quotes) One smile relieves a heart that grieves (Robert Graves Quotes) When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting, chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating. Merry, merry, take a cherry mine are sounder, mine are rounder mine are sweeter, for the eater when the dews fall. And you'll be fairies all (Robert Graves Quotes) His wiles were witty and his fame far known, every king's daughter sought him for her own, yet he was nothing to be won or lost. All lands to him were Ithaca: love-tossed he loathed the fraud, yet would not bed alone (Robert Graves Quotes) One, two and many: flesh had made him blind, flesh had one pleasure only in the act, flesh set one purpose only in the mind - triumph of flesh and afterwards to find still those same terrors wherewith flesh was racked (Robert Graves Quotes) Take your delight in momentariness, walk between dark and dark - a shining space with the grave's narrowness, though not its peace (Robert Graves Quotes) 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 (Robert Graves Quotes) There's a cool web of language winds us in, retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility (Robert Graves Quotes) His eyes are quickened so with grief, he can watch a grass or leaf every instant grow; he can clearly through a flint wall see, or watch the startled spirit flee from the throat of a dead man (Robert Graves Quotes) Trench stinks of shallow buried dead Where Tom stands at the periscope, tired out. After nine months he's shed all fear, all faith, all hate, all hope (Robert Graves Quotes) 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 i if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman (Robert Graves Quotes) If I were a young man and young was my lily, a smart girl, a bold young man, both of us silly. And though from time before I knew she'd stab me with pain, though well I knew she'd not be true, i'd love her again (Robert Graves Quotes) Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale (Robert Graves Quotes) What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love (Robert Graves Quotes) One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors (Robert Graves Quotes) 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 (Robert Graves Quotes)

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