Craig Raine Quotes

United Kingdom, Poet
December 3, 1944

Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. He has been the editor of Areté since 1999.

In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,That snores when you pick it up.If the ghost cries, they carry itTo their lips and soothe it to sleepWith sounds. And yet, they wake it upDeliberately, by tickling with a finger.

Craig Raine
- Up
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
- Time
- Done
- Simple

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsAnd some are treasured for their markings –They cause the eyes to meltOr the body to shriek without pain.

Craig Raine
- Eyes
- Pain
I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

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

Craig Raine
- Up
- Great
- Powerful