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«To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.»
«Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls / Married impossible men?»
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«You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm.»
«Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest . . .»
Author: Robert Graves
«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.»
Author: Robert Graves
«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.»
Author: Robert Graves
«In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.»
Author: Robert Graves
«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.»
Author: Robert Graves
«One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.»
Author: Robert Graves
«When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.»
Author: Robert Graves
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