Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting o…

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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason. ✨ Robert Graves (2013). Selected Poems, p.159, Faber & Faber
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As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. ✨ Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god, Carcanet … ▶
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow. ✨ … ▶
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by. ✨ Robert Grav … ▶
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. ✨ Robert Graves (2013). Selected Poems, p.130, Faber & Faber
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ✨ Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). Conversations with Robert Graves, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason. ✨ Robert Graves (2013). Selected Poems, p.159, Faber & Faber

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