Criticism Quote by Laura Riding

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

— Laura Riding

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved…

— Laura Riding

Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just…

— Laura Riding

“Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it”

— Laura Riding

The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning,…

— Laura Riding

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

— Laura Riding

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

— Laura Riding

She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of…

— Laura Riding

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

— Laura Riding

The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of…

— Laura Riding

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back…

— Laura Riding

Women are strangers in the country of man.

— Laura Riding