No escape, No such thing to dream of new dimensions, Cheating checkmate by painting the king's robe So that he slides like a queen.
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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
Ever in vain will courage plot
The dragon's death, in coat of proof;
Or love abjure the mermaid grot;
Or faith denounce the cloven hoof.
Robert Graves
Two souls, now unalterably one
In whole love always and for ever,
Soar out of twilight, through upper air,
Let fall their sensous burden.
Robert Graves
You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath My writing arm.
Robert Graves
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell uponThe trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Robert Graves
War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre
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