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Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24, 1895December 7, 1985) was an English scholar, poet, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works in total. He was the son of Alfred Perceval Graves, the Anglo-Irish writer..

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

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

Graves, Robert on poetry and poets    Share

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"The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity."

Graves, Robert on war    Share

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"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

Graves, Robert on reputation    Share

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