Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
—Robert Ranke Graves
Topics: Logic
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 Ranke Graves
Topics: Reputation
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
—Robert Ranke Graves
Topics: Money
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
—Robert Ranke Graves
Topics: Sports
Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight
—Robert Ranke Graves
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
—Robert Ranke Graves
If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
—Robert Ranke Graves
Topics: Women, Girls
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written, the world would end.
—Robert Ranke Graves
Topics: Perfection
What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
—Robert Ranke Graves
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