Robert Graves Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”