Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very —in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves - quoted in Observer (London, Dec. 6, 1964).
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.
Robert Graves-"The Case for Xanthippe" in The Crane Bag (1969)
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves
