Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
- Robert Graves
Sell, Prose, Books, Breed
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
- Robert Graves
Marriage, Money, Still, Devalued
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
- Robert Graves
Love, Must, Amateur, Maintained
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
- Robert Graves
Girl, Deserve, Them, Despair
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.
- Robert Graves
Medicine, More, May, Anthology
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
Made, Primitive, Though, Connecting
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
- Robert Graves
Pattern, Same, Series, Different Colors
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
Say, Very, About, Shakespeare
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves
Say, Very, About, Shakespeare
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
- Robert Graves
Genius, Answers, Only, Supplies
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
- Robert Graves
Love, Warm, Call, Perversion
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.
- Robert Graves
Audience, Very, Use, Poets
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
- Robert Graves
Money, Poetry, Neither
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
- Robert Graves
Condition, Profession, Than, Poet
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
- Robert Graves
Money, Either, Then, Poetry
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