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
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
To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may,… — Laura Riding 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 Copy Share Image
Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;… — 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
Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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