The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient …

Robert Graves
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. ✨ Robert Graves (1962). Oxford Addresses on Poetry
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The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. ✨ Robert Graves (2011). The White Goddess, p.53, Faber … ▶
Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting fo … ▶
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ✨ Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). Conversations with Robert Graves, p.112, Univ. Press … ▶
For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem t … ▶
She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away as soon as their money was spent. She said that the clause about the money was always re … ▶

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. ✨ Robert Graves (1962). Oxford Addresses on Poetry

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