Age Quote by Kathleen Raine

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

— Kathleen Raine

As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f…

— Kathleen Raine

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment…

— Kathleen Raine

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing…

— Kathleen Raine

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

— Kathleen Raine

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

— Kathleen Raine

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

— Kathleen Raine

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very…

— Kathleen Raine

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

— Kathleen Raine

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the…

— Kathleen Raine

“Within the ring there lies an O, Within the O there looks an eye, In the eye there swims a sea, And in the…

— Kathleen Raine

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of…

— Kathleen Raine