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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in...

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Quote by Robert Graves about poetry, money

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly...

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Quote by Robert Graves about love, sport

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Quote by Robert Graves about poetry, poets

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the...

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Quote by Robert Graves about genius

We are born to be a grave next to a grave, to whisper...

We are born to be a grave next to a grave, to whisper ourselves words of love.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about destiny, word, love

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about difficulties, beauty, poetry

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect...

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Quote by Francis Bacon about limits, god

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about man

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more...

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pleasure

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

Quote by George W. Bush about destruction, danger, world

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Quote by George Gordon Byron about glory

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered...

Quote by Orson Scott about nation, light, war

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Quote by Charles Dickens about season, progress, night, nature, time

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his...

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting...

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about recollection, things

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in...

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about pleasure, security, faith, moral

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Quote by John Pearson about old, people, rest, nothing, life

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their...

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Quote by Pericles about time, man

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in...

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Quote by Thomas Browne about people, man

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Quote by Thomas Hardy about woman

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