Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave… — 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
