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
life answers okay
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
insight
What good are insights? They only make things worse.
knows
What do any of us really know about love?
heart broken pieces
My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.
mistake looks
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
giving looks
She won't give him back his look.
beautiful daughter drunk
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
writing literature crafts
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
morning poetry early-morning
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
philosophy class discovery
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.
art dying conversation
There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
tears cold remember
But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.