Craig Raine Professions : Poet Born : December 3, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Craig Raine 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 done artist simple Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. Craig Raine disease powerful writing 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 ulysses important 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 Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
