Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. – Robert Graves
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
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. – Robert Graves
If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. – Robert Graves
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. – Robert Graves
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. – Robert Graves
What we now call ‘finance’ is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. – Robert Graves
