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 Doorstep 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
We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and… — Laura Riding Seems Copy Share Image
Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was… — Laura Riding Clever 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 Between 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 Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Belief Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Attention Copy Share Image
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism… — Laura Riding Criticism Copy Share Image
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. — Laura Riding Fit 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 Addresses 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
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of… — Laura Riding Being there 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 Affected 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 Craving 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 About Copy Share Image
In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else. — Laura Riding Generosity 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
Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance… — Laura Riding Body 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 Art 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
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while… — Laura Riding Age Copy Share Image
Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society… — Laura Riding Being equal Copy Share Image
How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Different Copy Share Image
