Quotes by Kathleen Raine - Page 1

Academia is a graveyard of poets.
Kathleen Raine / Poet
Academia
Graveyard
Poet
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The work of the artist is to heal the soul.
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Artist
Heal
Soul
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Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
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Common
Language
Understood
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Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
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Jobs
Poet
Way
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I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.
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Book
Eye
Garden
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... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.
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Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
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Great Love
Perfect
Thousand
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
Kathleen Raine / Poet
Decision
Evil
Hell
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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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May
Mood
Self
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Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.
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Queens
Science
Venus
White
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And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.
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Clouds
Sky
Tree
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Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.
Kathleen Raine / Poet
Art
Commitment
Special
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The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned
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Farewell
Lakes
Lying
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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.
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War
Fire
Sleep
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As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the reality f myth, I chose myth...Myth is the truth of fact, not fact the truth of myth.
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Children
Facts
Reality
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Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail
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Kings
Dark
Son
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It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.
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Imagination
Purpose
Records
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I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.
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Apology
Sky
Writing
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Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?
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Art
Beautiful
Understanding
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Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.
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Life
Children
Memories
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade.
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Dream
Memories
Summer
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