Robert Graves Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  Robert Graves (1972). “Poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

• Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Apples, Noses

  Robert Graves (1959). “Collected Poems, 1959”, London : Cassell

• Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood, The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm. The blinded man sees with his ears and hands As much or more than once with both his eyes.

  Robert Graves

  Rain, Eye, Men

  Robert Graves (1959). “Collected Poems, 1959”, London : Cassell

• I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then it's retyped again. Then there's a third typing, which is the final one. Nothing should then remain that offends the eye.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Finals, Should

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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