Craig Raine Quotes

Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL 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.

✵ 3. December 1944

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Famous Craig Raine Quotes

“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.”

"A Martian Sends a Postcard Home", line 1; first published in The New Statesman, December 23 and 30, 1977.

“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.”

The Guardian, February 10, 2004. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/feb/10/books.booksnews2

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

The Independent on Sunday, November 18, 1990.

“In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,
That snores when you pick it up.
If the ghost cries, they carry it
To their lips and soothe it to sleep
With sounds. And yet, they wake it up
Deliberately, by tickling with a finger.”

"A Martian Sends a Postcard Home", line 19.

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

The Guardian, August 19, 1988.

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