Graves/history

Famous quotes containing the words graves and/or history:

“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.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)