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Letter "R" » Robert Graves Quotes
«Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grace he spoke / Unto lost desert-folk / That listened wondering.»
Author: Robert Graves
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«I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.»
«Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.»
«Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.»
«Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull.»
«Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.»
«`How is your trade, Aquarius, / This frosty night?' / `Complaints is many and various / And my feet are cold,' says Aquarius.»
«Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.»
«If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.»
Author: Robert Graves
«To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.»
Author: Robert Graves
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