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 Art 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
Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it. — 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 Image
“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 Image
A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory… — Laura Riding Art 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 Brevity Copy Share Image
What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of… — Laura Riding First love Copy Share Image
Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation… — Laura Riding Compensation Copy Share Image
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with… — Laura Riding Differentiation Copy Share Image
All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write… — Laura Riding Books Copy Share Image
I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your… — 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
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the… — 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 Books Copy Share Image
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty… — Laura Riding Ambiguity Copy Share Image
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Character Copy Share Image
we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger… — 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
The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition… — Laura Riding Argument Copy Share Image
“People will think you brilliant only if you tell them what they know. To avoid being thought brilliant, avoid knowing what they… — Laura Riding Anarchism Copy Share Image
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as… — Laura Riding Bridges 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
A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as… — Laura Riding Child Copy Share Image
![“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.” quote by Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ece/laura-riding-9995_first-love_what-second-love-could-she-olympias-make_3151265.jpg)
