Quotes by Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine

… the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

Knows

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

Academia

Graveyard

Poet

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.

Clouds

Sky

Tree

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.

Children

Facts

Reality

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

Jobs

Poet

Way

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

Queens

Science

White

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.

Decision

Evil

Hell

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.

Apology

Sky

Writing

I’ve read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

Book

Eye

Garden

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love’s everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

Great Love

Perfect

Thousand

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Academia

Apology

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Book

Children

Clouds

Commitment

Common

Dark

Decision

Dream

Evil

Eye

Facts

Farewell

Fire

Garden

Graveyard

Great Love

Heal

Hell

Imagination

Jobs

Kings

Knows

Lakes

Language

Life

Lying

May

Memories

Mood

Perfect

Poet

Purpose

Queens

Reality

Records

Science

Self

Sky

Sleep

Son

Soul

Special

Summer

Thousand

Tree

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Quotes by Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine

… the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

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.

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.

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

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.

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.

I’ve read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love’s everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

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