Kathleen Raine Quotes

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

For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

Kathleen Raine

Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there

Kathleen Raine

And see the peaceful trees extendtheir myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky and cloudupon the fountain of their veins.

Kathleen Raine