Robert Graves People Quotations

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take my book, I take my stick On the Sabbath day, In woody nooks and valleys I hide myself away. To ponder there in quiet God's Universal Plan, Resolved that church and Sabbath Were never made for man.

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.