Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Accepted Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Aids 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 Brevity Copy Share Image
... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious. — Laura Riding Curiosity Copy Share Image
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding Function Copy Share Image
Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself. — Laura Riding Looks Copy Share Image
The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or… — Laura Riding Essence Copy Share Image
A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as… — Laura Riding Children Copy Share Image
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. — Laura Riding Beyond Copy Share Image
Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such… — Laura Riding Ciphers Copy Share Image
I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still? — Laura Riding God Copy Share Image
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Condition 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 Bridges Copy Share Image
What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of… — Laura Riding First love Copy Share Image
we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger… — Laura Riding Firsts 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 Books Copy Share Image
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