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Robert Graves
(1895 - 1985 / London / England)
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72 poems of Robert Graves
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''Those famous men of old, the Ogres—
They had long beards and stinking arm-pits,
They were wide-mouthed, long-yarded and great-bellied
Yet not of taller stature, Sirs, than you.''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. Ogres and Pygmies (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann...
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''The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. Address, January 1960, to the Oxford University Philological Society. "Poetic Gold," Oxford Address...
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''The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good—in spite of all the people who say he is very good.''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. quoted in Observer (London, Dec. 6, 1964).
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''Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. quoted in Observer (London, Nov. 11, 1962).
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''Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. Quoted in Observer (London, November 11, 1962).
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''War was return of earth to ugly earth,
War was foundering of sublimities,
Extinction of each happy art and faith
By which the world had still kept head in air.''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. Recalling War (l. 31-34). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. ...
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Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean,
The track aches only when the rain reminds.
The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood.
The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm.
The b...
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. Recalling War (l. 1-6). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Fr...
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''What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags
But an infection of the common sky
That sagged ominously upon the earth''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. Recalling War (l. 11-13). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. ...
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''To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. Reply to questionnaire, "The Cost of Letters," Horizon (London, September 1946).
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''She tells her love while half asleep
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:''
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. She Tells Her Love while Half Asleep (l. 1-3). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, Th...
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