Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the p…

Robert Graves
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Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
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There is one story and one story only. ✨ Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). Conversations with Robert Graves, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ✨ The Observer, December 06, 1964.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

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