If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Robert Graves Quotes
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.
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Robert Graves (37)
Birth: | 24th July, 1895 |
Death: | 7th December, 1985 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet, Soldier |
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Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works.
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