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