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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

~Robert Graves

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

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A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

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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.

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Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: July 26th, 1895

Died: December 7th, 1985

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