42 ordspråk av Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert Graves föddes den July 26th 1895 och dog den 7 December 1985 - English writer
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Hitta foto...
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Hitta foto...
 In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. |
| Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. |
| Love is a universal migraine / A bright stain on the vision / Blotting out reason. |
| Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. |
| 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. |
| Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties. |
| 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. |
| One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. |
| One smile relieves
a heart that grieves though deadly sad it be, and one hard look Can close the book that lovers love to see. |
| 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 . . . |
| Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. |
Number of proverbs are 1469552
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Barnslighet är både skattebefriat och gratis!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!
varav 1407627 på engelska
Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Barnslighet är både skattebefriat och gratis!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!
 |
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Barnslighet är både skattebefriat och gratis!
Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!