"Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a……" — Laura Riding
"Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall."
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Laura Riding
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14 Quotes by Laura Riding
Laura Riding has 14 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in…
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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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More Boot Quotes
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one of 146 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter.…
— William S. Burroughs
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The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to…
— Unknown Author
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There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of…
— James Brady
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No one did what I did last season and for this I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq…
— Harry Reid
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and…
— John Taylor Gatto
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me.…
— Unknown Author
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I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.
— Barry Venison
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On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of…
— Unknown Author
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
— Robert Browning
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How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or…
— Kenny Smith
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