Robert Graves Quotes

You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm. - Robert Graves

Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls / Married impossible men? - Robert Graves

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day. - Robert Graves

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

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. - Robert Graves

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre. - Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. - Robert Graves

To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start. - Robert Graves

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. - Robert Graves

They carry / Time looped so river-wise about their house / There's no way in by history's road / To name or number them. - Robert Graves

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