Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. — Laura Riding Copy Share
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved… — Laura Riding Copy Share
Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just… — Laura Riding Copy Share
“Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it” — Laura Riding Copy Share
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning,… — Laura Riding Copy Share
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. — Laura Riding Copy Share
She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of… — Laura Riding Copy Share
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding Copy Share
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of… — Laura Riding Copy Share
The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back… — Laura Riding Copy Share
Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall. — Laura Riding Copy Share
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A… — Laura Riding Copy Share
To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after -… — Laura Riding Copy Share
