Robert Graves: 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.

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.

-- Robert Graves


		Name: Robert Graves Type: Novelist Nationality: Irish Birth: July 26, 1895 Death: December 7, 1985

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