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“ ”Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
About Robert Graves
Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a prolific English poet, scholar and novelist. He is most famous for his autobiographical work Goodbye to All That, and works on classical themes and mythology, such as I, Claudius, The Greek Myths and The White Goddess. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves.
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Additional quotes by Robert Graves
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.
The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.