Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr.was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1938
CityClatskanie, OR
CountryUnited States of America
morning moving eye
That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.
pie nervous
I am too nervous to eat pie.
this-life wanted
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
men matter damn
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
writing has-beens been-in-love
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
ends always-learning
I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
knows
What do any of us really know about love?
moving nevada
I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.
morning poetry early-morning
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
writing imagination littles
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
life-is feels
My life is going to change. I feel it.
men doors hands
A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.
beautiful daughter drunk
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.