Riding on the shell and shot. He smites you down, he succours you, And where you seek him, he is not. - Robert Graves

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams — mad but interesting.

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.” - Robert Graves

My tutor I have already mentioned, Marcus Porcius Cato who was, in his own estimation at least, a living embodiment of that ancient Roman virtue which his ancestors had one after the other shown. He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about. He boasted particularly of Cato the Censor, who of all characters in Roman history is to me perhaps the most hateful, as having persistently championed the cause of "ancient virtue" and made it identical in the popular mind with churlishness, pedantry and harshness.