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

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Source : Craig Raine (2012). “Haydn and The Valve Trumpet”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

Craig Raine

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“Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.”
“I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!”
“At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.”
“I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.”
“Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.”
“O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.”
“You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.”
“I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.”

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