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…

- 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.

- Kathleen Raine

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…

- Kathleen Raine

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

- Kathleen Raine

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 f…

- Kathleen Raine

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 lov…

- Kathleen Raine

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…

- Kathleen Raine

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 sm…

- Kathleen Raine

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

- Kathleen Raine