Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane… — 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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