Craig Raine quotes
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“The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.”
-- Craig RaineSource : Craig Raine (2012). “Haydn and The Valve Trumpet”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
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“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.”
-- Craig RaineSource : Craig Raine (2011). “In Defence of T. S. Eliot”, p.448, Pan Macmillan
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“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 RaineSource : "Genius or fallen idol?". Interviews with Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.
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“Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.”
-- Craig RaineSource : Craig Raine (2016). “My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry”, p.155, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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