"There can be no literary equivalent to truth." — Laura Riding

"There can be no literary equivalent to truth."

— Laura Riding

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14 Quotes by Laura Riding

Laura Riding has 14 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…
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…
I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in…
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what…
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end…
If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you…
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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