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

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

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

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.
Robert Graves

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.
Robert Graves

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

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.
Robert Graves