Robert Graves

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

— Robert Graves

#either #money #then

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

#idea #me #money #never #person

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ↗

— Robert Graves

#breed #cat #dogs #i #prose

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. ↗

— Robert Graves

#poet #profession #rather #than

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. ↗

— Robert Graves

#love #maintained #must #status #strictly

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ↗

— Robert Graves

#despair #exceeds #far #girl #good

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

— Robert Graves

#devalued #like #money #progressively #still

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

— Robert Graves

#call #finance #hold #human #human love

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. ↗

— Robert Graves

#different #different colors #experiences #gets #heart