Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. - Robert Graves

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.

It doesn't matter what's the cause, What wrong they say we're righting, A curse for treaties, bonds and laws, When we're to do the fighting!

The bad poet is likely to have suffered and felt joy as deeply as the poet reckoned first class, but he has not somehow been given the power of translating experience into images and emblems, or of melting words in the furnace of his mind and making them flow into the channels prepared to take them.