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Robert Graves Robert Ranke Graves was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works. He was the son.

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1 Robert Graves Robert Ranke Graves was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works. He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke, a niece of the famous German historian more..

2 Robert Graves:The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. #Writers and Writing

3 Robert Graves: A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. #Reputation

4 Robert Graves:Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. #Poetry and Poets

5 Robert Graves: What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. #Finance

6 Robert Graves:There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either. #Poetry and Poets

7 Robert Graves: The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. #Awards

8 Robert Graves:Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. #Science and Scientists

9 Robert Graves: If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. #Poetry and Poets

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