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Laura Riding has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism…
• Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
• Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.
• To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art…
• I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?
• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory…
• I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean,…
• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry…
• If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the…
• Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

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