“There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.”
Robert Graves“I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.”
Robert Graves, I, Claudius“If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
Robert Graves“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”
Robert Graves“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”
Robert Graves“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.”
Robert Graves“There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.”
Robert Graves“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.”
Robert Graves“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.”
Robert Graves“I love, therefore I am.”
Robert Graves“Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against anything unless it's going to have an effect. None of those marches do. One should either be silent or go straight to the top.”
Robert Graves