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I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

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Robert Graves
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 24
Died: 1985
Died: December 7
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
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Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
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