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
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. — Laura Riding 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
