Robert Graves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.