Frasi di Robert Graves

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Essere poeta è una condizione più che una professione.

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Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.

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

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Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.

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One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

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