Robert Graves on history

Love is a universal migraine.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman1884–1972