Robert Graves

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.

I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams__ad but interesting.

England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I found serious conversation with my parents all but impossible.

I was thinking, "So, I__ Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman__ education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

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

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

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

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.

I love, therefore I am.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.