The Complete Poems Quotes

“The Cabbage White

The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has- who knows so well as I?-
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the acrobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.”
― Robert Graves, The Complete Poems

“There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling”
― Robert Graves, The Complete Poems