I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still? — Laura Riding God Copy Share Image
Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people. — Laura Riding Feminism Copy Share Image
... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious. — Laura Riding Curiosity Copy Share Image
Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself. — 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
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
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding 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
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
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… — 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
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
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
Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble… — Laura Riding 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 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
A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by… — Laura Riding 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
Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance… — Laura Riding Anger Copy Share Image
Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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