
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
Robert Graves
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)
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves
