Robert Graves quotes
Robert Graves was a British poet, novelist, and classical scholar, known for works such as "I, Claudius." His writings explored mythology, history, and the human condition with great depth and imagination. He remains influential in both literary and academic circles. Here are 137 of his quotes:
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 identity 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
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence.
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Occupation: English Poet
Born: July 24, 1895
Died: December 7, 1985
Quotes count: 137
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