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Quotations by Robert Graves 15 Found Born: Friday, July 26, 1895 A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. 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. 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. Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. 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. One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. |
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