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Robert Graves [1895-1985] Irish

Rank: 103
Poet (with poems), Poet

Atheism, Georgian poets, Modernism, Myth, War

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, novelist, critic and classicist. He produced more than 140 works. Graves's poems—together with his translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths; his memoir of his early life, including his role in the First World War, Good-Bye to All That; and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess—have never been out of print.

Poetry, Finance, Marriage, Money

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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.	Money, Poetry	101
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.		102
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.		103
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.		104
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.	Finance	105
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.		106
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.		107
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.		108
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.	Marriage	109
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.		110
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.		111
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.	Poetry	112
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.		113
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.		114
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.		115

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