Quotes by : Craig Raine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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