I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. — Laura Riding Believe 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 Art 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… — Laura Riding Elements 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 Forgiveness 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
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but… — Laura Riding Communication Copy Share Image
Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people. — Laura Riding Has beens 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… — Laura Riding All kinds 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 History 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 Defining 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… — Laura Riding Activity Copy Share Image
Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall. — Laura Riding Boots 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 Administrative 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 Comprehensive Copy Share Image
Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble… — Laura Riding Contradictory 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
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is… — Laura Riding Attainment Copy Share Image
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. — Laura Riding Acts Copy Share Image
If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the… — Laura Riding Find Copy Share Image
Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex. — Laura Riding Company 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
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 Century 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 Anthology Copy Share Image
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