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Robert Graves6 quotes
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. — Robert Graves · 1963Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark-a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace. — Robert Graves · 1929Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. — Robert Graves · 1946Christ of his gentleness
Thirsting and hungering,
Walked in the wilderness;
Soft words of grace He spoke
Unto lost desert-folk
That listened wondering. — Robert Graves · 1916There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. — Robert Graves · 1929Though 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. — Robert Graves · 1969