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“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

Source/Notes: "On English poetry; being an irregular approach to the psychology of this art, from evidence mainly subjective" by Robert Graves, A.A. Knopf, 1922, p. 85, Chapter XXIX "The Use of Poetry"

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“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

Source/Notes: Mammon an address at the London School of Economics (6 December 1963); published in Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965)

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“Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.”

- Robert Graves

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“If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: Conversations with Robert Graves (1989 edition), Univ. Press of Mississippi - ISBN: 9780878054145

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“If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: Mammon and the black goddess (1965 edition)

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“In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: "The Future of Swearing and Improper Language" (1936) by Robert Graves, p. 21

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“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: Mammon and the black goddess (1965 edition)

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“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

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“One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.”

- Robert Graves

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“Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: Conversations with Robert Graves (1989 edition), Univ. Press of Mississippi - ISBN: 9780878054145

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“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: Conversations with Robert Graves (1989 edition), Univ. Press of Mississippi - ISBN: 9780878054145

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“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: Reply to questionnaire, The Cost of Letters in Horizon (September 1946)

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“What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.”

- Robert Graves

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“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and — if he is lucky enough — know the love of an honest woman.”

- Robert Graves

Source/Notes: Lecture at Oxford as quoted in Time (15 December 1961)

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