Robert Graves, poet and novelist was born on this date in 1895. He wrote I, Claudius.
- There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
- Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
- To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
- In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
- Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun.
- Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.
- I love, therefore I am.
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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