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Experience Quotes by Robert Graves
- Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.…
- To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central…
- The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
- I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel…
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