Contest Is Over. NOW THE WORK BEGINS!

So, just to be clear: here is what Robert Graves said EXACTLY as he said it, and following it are the posts with names removed (though I know them) of the brave and articulate souls who approached the concept of trying to not only figure out what he meant by this poem, but how they could say what they thought in 140 characters or less. 

The Devil's Advice to Story-Tellers

Lest men suspect your tale to be untrue,

Keep probability - some say - in view.

But my advice to story-tellers is:

Weigh out no gross of probabilities,

Nor yet make diligent transcriptions of

Known instances of virtue, crime or love.

To forge a picture that will pass for true,

Do conscientiously what liars do -

Born liars, not the lesser sort that raid

The mouths of others for their stock-in-trade:

Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps

That may shake down into a world perhaps;

People this world, by chance created so,

With random persons whom you do not know-

The teashop sort, or travellers in a train

Seen once, guessed idly at, not seen again;

Let the erratic course they steer surprise

Their own and your own and your readers' eyes;

Sigh then, or frown, but leave (as in despair)

Motive and end and moral in the air;

Nice contradiction between fact and fact

Will make the whole read human and exact.

               - Robert Graves