Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 20.
Fuente: A propósito de la poesía inglesa (1922).
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Frases célebres de Robert Graves
“Ser poeta es una condición más que una profesión.”
Poesía
Fuente: Cuestionario Horizon (1946).
“No hay dinero en la poesía, tampoco hay poesía en el dinero.”
Poesía
Fuente: [Señor], Luis (ed.). Diccionario de citas. Editorial Espasa Calpe, 2005. ISBN 8423992543, p. 156.
“La poesía no es una ciencia sino un acto de fe.”
Poesía
Fuente: Schools (Observations on Poetry (1922-25).
“La mayoría de los poetas están muertos al final de los veintitantos.”
Poesía
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 66.
Fuente: The Observer (1962).
Robert Graves Frases y Citas
Robert Graves libro Los mitos griegos
Fuente: Los mitos griegos (Introducción al volumen I). Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1985; página 24. ISBN 8420601101.
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 208.
Fuente: Revista ‘Avante’.
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 431.
Fuente: Occupation: Writer. Nueva York: Creative Age Press, 1950; Londres: Cassell, 1951.
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 175.
Fuente: Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (introducción).
Fuente: La hija de Homero (prólogo). Edhasa, 2ª ed. 1981; página 9. ISBN 843503086.
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 102.
Fuente: 'Cixous' (Le Monde, 1969).
Robert Graves: Frases en inglés
"Advice To Lovers".
Country Sentiment (1920)
"I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
"Babylon"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
"Recalling War," lines 31–34, from Collected Poems 1938 (1938).
Poems
Robert Graves libro I, Claudius
Fuente: I, Claudius (1934), Ch. 5.
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
Poems
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
Poems
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
Poems
“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.”
The Paris Review, "Writers at Work: 4th series," interview with Peter Buckman and William Fifield (1969).
General sources
Fuente: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 17.
"I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
“Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.”
"The Persian Version," lines 1–2, from Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques (1946).
Poems
"Pygmalion to Galatea" from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
Poems
Quoted in The Observer [London] (6 December 1964).
General sources
Lecture at Oxford as quoted in Time (15 December 1961).
General sources
"Down, Wanton, Down!," lines 1-4, from Poems 1930-1933 (1933).
Poems
Robert Graves libro King Jesus
Fuente: King Jesus (1946), Ch. 21.
Fuente: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 21.
Fuente: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 27.
“Let Cupid smile and the fiend must flee;
Hey and hither, my lad.”
"Love and Black Magic"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
“And what of home — how goes it, boys,
While we die here in stench and noise?”
"Country At War"
Country Sentiment (1920)
Introduction Poems about Love (1969).
General sources
"Through the Periscope" (1915) [first published in 1988]
Poems
Fuente: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch.26 On being at home in Harlech in 1919. During the First World War, the mental effects of war on the fighting men were called shell shock or neurasthenia — or dismissed altogether as cowardice. Graves describes very clearly symptoms of what would now be seen as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Fuente: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 25.
