If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

- Robert Graves

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

- Robert Graves

The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in…

- Robert Graves

When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: …

- Robert Graves

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

- Robert Graves

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

- Robert Graves

Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

- Robert Graves

Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the t…

- Robert Graves

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

- Robert Graves