Robert Graves
Novelist
1895-07-24
Books by Robert Graves
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Goodbye to All That
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Good-bye to All that
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Quotes by Robert Graves
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To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.
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I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.
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There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.
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The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams— mad but interesting.
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England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I found serious conversation with my parents all but impossible.
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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.
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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.
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There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either
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When the immense drugged universe explodesIn a cascade of unendurable colourAnd leaves us gasping naked,This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal loveWhich alone, as we know certainly, restoresFragmentation into true being.Ecstasy of Chaos
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The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams— mad but interesting.
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To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.
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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.
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When the immense drugged universe explodesIn a cascade of unendurable colourAnd leaves us gasping naked,This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal loveWhich alone, as we know certainly, restoresFragmentation into true being.Ecstasy of Chaos
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England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I found serious conversation with my parents all but impossible.
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I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.
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There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either
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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.
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There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.
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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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