Craig Raine Quotes

...much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and w...

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been do...

No one is exempt and everyone's pain has a different smell. At night, when all the colours die,they ...

Begin with the soft smelted upturned heart-shaped mouth made for smiling a smile kept for kindness, ...

In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, wor...

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings-- they cause ...

In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, sh...

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried...