Quote 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 it.

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

“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 her lean,…

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine

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

— Craig Raine