Robert Graves Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Rewriting, Good Writing

• There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

  Robert Graves

  Money, Writing, Poetry

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Ideas, Talking

• The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Mean, Way

  Robert Graves, Paul O'Prey (1995). “Collected writings on poetry”, Carcanet Pr

• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Awards, Gold

  Robert Graves (1962). “Oxford Addresses on Poetry”

• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Reading, Writing

  Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

• A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Bankers, Rich

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