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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.

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
Simple, Artist, Done
Craig Raine (2012). “Haydn and The Valve Trumpet”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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

Craig Raine
Powerful, Writing, Disease
Craig Raine (2011). “In Defence of T. S. Eliot”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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
Clean Underwear, Important, Ulysses
"Genius or fallen idol?". Interviews with Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

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 Raine
Pain, Eye, Wings
Craig Raine (2016). “My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry”, p.155, Atlantic Books Ltd

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