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Robert Graves Inspirational Quotes (61)

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As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
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One smile relieves a heart that grieves.
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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
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Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.
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This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
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I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.
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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.
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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.
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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
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No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.
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