“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.” WayJobsPoetProfession Author:Kathleen Raine
“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.” ArtMomentsLife IsSpecialFieldsPoetCommitmentImaginativeMoments Of LifeLive Every Moment Author: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 from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.” WorldPurposeSpeakImaginationRecordsPoetReaderMoodSubjectiveOuter WorldsAnything And Everything Author:Kathleen Raine