Quotes of Craig Raine - somelinesforyou

“ ...much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another word. And another. Yet another. You wait. You begin again. Listening. Looking. For the elusive inevitable thing which has to arrive before it is recognised. And, like Odysseus, may not be recognised at first. ”

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Poetry

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

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Writing

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

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Disease

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

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Infection

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

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Impatient

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

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Irresistible

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

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Powerful

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

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Pick

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

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Patient

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

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Robust

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

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Splendid

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

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Threatening

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

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Virus

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