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

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

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 pa…

- Craig Raine

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

- Craig Raine