"We live on the circumference of a hollow……" — Laura Riding
"We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism."
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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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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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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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