Robert Graves Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: July 24, 1895 - December 7, 1985
Birthday: July 24
Death: December 7
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.
topic: Strong, Philosophy, Party, Strong Person, Personal Views, Serfs
