Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall. — Laura Riding 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean,… — Laura Riding 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding 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 Child 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 Anarchism 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
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two… — Laura Riding 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
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is… — Laura Riding 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
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 Copy Share Image
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