One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
From Robert Graves
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
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