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Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. - Robert Graves
" "Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
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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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Robert von Ranke Graves
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Robert Ranke Graves
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Robert von Ranke-Graves
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Robert Von Ranke-Graves
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In the middle of a lecture I would have a sudden very clear experience of men on the march up the Béthune–La Bassée road; the men would be singing... These daydreams persisted like an alternate life and did not leave me until well in 1928. The scenes were nearly always recollections of my first four months in France; the emotion-recording apparatus seems to have failed after Loos.
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