• The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

    Robert Graves: The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.
    Robert Graves, Paul O'Prey (1995). “Collected writings on poetry”, Carcanet Pr