unearths some literary gems.
From Conversations with Robert Graves:
***"The public, when you write a poem, is like the little figure you put in an architectural drawing that shows the scale."***"I am putting a ring round a piece of experience so that it can stay....I have done my best to insulate it against what is not poetry."[So I guess a poem is defined as everything that isn't not-a-poem--sort of like a sculptor proceeding by simply removing everything from the slab that isn't part of the sculpture. (:v>]***[Graves's] anonymity...was largely the result of his impatient indifference to the rules of literarymanship. [Kenneth Allsop]***
