I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our … - Kathleen Raine

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One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it.

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 of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

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

Book, Eye, Garden, Read, Remains, Wonders

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Know, May, Mood, Scale, Self, Selves

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 with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?

Art, Beautiful, Human, Lives, Understanding, Use

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

Know, Knows, Poem, Reminds

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

Great Love, Intent, Missed, Perfect, Thousand