Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical… — Robert Graves

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends.

1969
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Graves, Robert. "The Case for Xanthippe." The Crane Bag. Cassell & Company, 1969.

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