“There’s a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.”
"The Cool Web," lines 9–12, from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
Poems
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Robert Graves 117
English poet and novelist 1895–1985Related quotes

The Garden of Proserpine.
Undated

“I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.”
Source: Uprooted

“and love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.”
Source: The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section II, p. 103

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 171

Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns