Robert Graves

“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”

“One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.”

“What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.”

“I have myself eaten the hallucinogenic mushroom, psilocybe, a divine ambrosia in immemorial use among the Masatec Indians of Oaxaca Province, Mexico; hear the priestess invoke Tlaloc, the Mushroom-god, and seen transcendental visions. Thus I wholeheartedly agree with R. Gordon Wasson, the American d...”

“I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.”

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.”