Quotes by

Robert Graves

If theres no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. – Robert Graves

Theres no money in poetry, but then theres no poetry in money, either. – Robert Graves

What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. – 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. – Robert Graves

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued. – Robert Graves

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. – Robert Graves

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. – Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. – Robert Graves