Quotes by : Robert Graves

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

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in....

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the....

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude,....

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

It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Independence....

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before....

England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild....

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....

When the immense drugged universe explodesIn a cascade of unendurable colourAnd leaves us gasping naked,This....