Robert Graves - biography

“Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.”

“Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.”

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

“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.”

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

“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.”

“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”

“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.”

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

Robert Graves has appeared in the following films:
Smilin’ Guns (1929)
Out-Stepping (1931)
Révolte dans la prison (1931)
Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931)
Stay Out (1931)
Caravane (1934)
Jealousy (1934)
Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Madame Spy (1934)
Wonder Bar (1934)
Dante’s Inferno (1935)
Mad Love (1935)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Fatal Lady (1936)
The Devil-Doll (1936)
The Invisible Ray (1936)
Conquest (1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Walking Down Broadway (1938)
Midnight (1939)


Robert Graves contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
I, Claudius (1937)
Le Guerriere dal seno nudo (1973)
The Shout (1978)