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Writing Quotes by Robert Graves
- There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's…
- There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
- A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in…
- There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
- 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…
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