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“ To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought. ”

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When the immense drugged universe explodesIn a cascade of unendurable colourAnd leaves us gasping naked,This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal loveWhich alone, as we know certainly, restoresFragmentation into true being.Ecstasy of Chaos

~ Robert Graves

There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either

~ Robert Graves

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

~ Robert Graves

I was thinking, So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

~ Robert Graves