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Craig Raine

(1944) Poet

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Craig Raine is a poet.

Quick Facts About Craig Raine

Born: December 3, 1944
Profession: Poet

About Craig Raine

[Wikidata] poet... | [Wikipedia] Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. He was the edi

Quotes by Craig Raine

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do…

Art

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“In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit…

Humour

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“Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater…

Betrayal

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“When Julia was twenty-nine, her hair was already bar-coded. Now, at sixty-two, it was a solid helmet of bright pewter, level with…

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“I am awaiting the return of the nerves to the epidermis. They're being pretty damn slow about it.”

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“It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.”

Books

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“Here she is at her kitchen table, fingering a jigsaw of thalidomide ginger, thinking about the arthritis in her hands.”

Kitchen table

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“Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings-- they cause the eyes to melt or the…

Poem

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“In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, she glanced up and saw a…

Metaphor

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“Her laugh. The way she smoked before she gave up. Smoke trickling up her nostrils. Spokes of smoke when she spoke.”

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

Poetry

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“The jery, impeded walk of a man stuck in a turnstile, admitted, and stuck in a turnstile, admitted, and stuck in a…

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“Begin with the soft smelted upturned heart-shaped mouth made for smiling a smile kept for kindness, tenderness, incapable of malice. Am I…

Beauty

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Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or…

Bird

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Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Disease

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I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It…

Bus

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

Conductor

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