Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people. — Laura Riding Feminism Copy Share Image
I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still? — Laura Riding God Copy Share Image
Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious. — Laura Riding Curiosity 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
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
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding 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
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. — Laura Riding 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 Copy Share Image
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. — Laura Riding 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 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
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 object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is… — Laura Riding 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 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 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
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
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
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding 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 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 would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your… — Laura Riding 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 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
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
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
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
If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the… — 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
“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
Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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 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 their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.” quote by Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ece/laura-riding-9995_first-love_what-second-love-could-she-olympias-make_3151265.jpg)
