44 ordspråk av Robert Graves

Robert Graves

Robert Graves föddes den 26 juli 1895 och dog den 7 december 1985 - English writer
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Hitta foto...

They carry / Time looped so river-wise about their house / There's no way in by history's road / To name or number them.

Across two counties he can hear / And catch your words before you speak. / The woodlouse or the maggot's weak / Clamour rings in his sad ear, / And noise so slight it would surpass / Credence.

`How is your trade, Aquarius, / This frosty night?' / `Complaints is many and various / And my feet are cold,' says Aquarius.

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

Orsaken till att håret reser sig, ögonen tåras, halsen snörs samman, huden knottrar sig och det går kalla kårar efter ryggen när man skriver eller läser sann poesi, är att all sann poesi med nödvändighet är en åkallan av Den Vita Gudinnan eller Musan, modern till allt levande, den urgamla fruktans kraft och lust - den kvinnliga bidrottningen eller spindeln, vars omfamning betyder döden.

Poesi och poeter

Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grace he spoke / Unto lost desert-folk / That listened wondering.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull.

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

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

To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.

Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls / Married impossible men?

You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm.

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest . . .

Sidan 2 av 3

<tidigare nästa>

1 2 3

Nordsprog.dk

Antal ordsprog er 1469560
varav 716123 på nordiska

Ordsprog (1469560 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik

Robert Graves ordspråk

Robert Graves proverb