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Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition Quotes: Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
         

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.


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Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
         



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