Robert Graves

There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either. ↗

— Robert Graves

#money

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

#claudius #emperor #robert-graves #roman #roman

There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either ↗

— Robert Graves

#poets #money

Wakeful they lie. ↗

— Robert Graves

#love

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return. ↗

— Robert Graves

#gentleman #business

A 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

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

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

#chosen #common #complete #cure #disorders

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

#anthropologists #between #connecting #forget #language

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. ↗

— Robert Graves

#genius #only #situation #supplies

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. ↗

— Robert Graves

#neither #poetry