Robert Graves Quote

The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.


Difficult Questions, Easy Answers (1972)


The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...

The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...

The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...

The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...