1895-1985, British Poet, Novelist
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 Graves – [Reputation]


If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Robert Graves – [Poetry and Poets]


The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Robert Graves – [Awards]


What we now call ''finance'' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves – [Finance]