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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet, writer > Robert Graves
Nine-tenths of English...
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Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
Source: Quoted in: Observer (London, 11 Nov. 1962).
-- Robert Graves, (Jul 26 1895-1985), English novelist, poet, writer; He authored more than 120 novels, books of poetry and criticism; best known for his historical novel, I, Claudius, 1934.