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Quotation by Robert Graves
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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.
Robert Graves (1895–1985), British poet, novelist. Address, January 1960, to the Oxford University Philological Society. "Poetic Gold," Oxford Addresses on Poetry (1962).
Graves had been awarded a gold medal for services to poetry by the National Poetry Society of America.
Graves had been awarded a gold medal for services to poetry by the National Poetry Society of America.
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