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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Robert Graves
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Robert Graves
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 24
Died: 1985
Died: December 7
Literary Critic
Military Personnel
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If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.
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I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
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When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.
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I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
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As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
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Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
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