Laura Riding Quotes

Laura Riding
American Poet
Born: Jan 16, 1901
Died: Sep 2, 1991
About Am Art Circle Truth Which
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. Laura Riding
Circle Criticism Live Draw Circumference Ourselves Out Spiders Like Hollow
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. Laura Riding
Friendship Art People Made Easiest Run About Various Employed Most Employment Because Occupations Loose Making Which Themselves Satisfy Sufficiently Things
There can be no literary equivalent to truth. Laura Riding
Truth Equivalent Literary
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 in poetry. Laura Riding
Truth Art Problem Poet Solve Solved Seem Poem Only Poetry Mere Making
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. Laura Riding
Believe Correct Possible Bad Magic About Oneself Misconceptions Does Where Act
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. Laura Riding
Memory Mind Immediate Pleasurable Pleasure Unpleasant Constant Physical Give Insistence Shall Poetry Condition End Itself Which Create Even
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' Laura Riding
Truth Nature Responsibility Human Nature Hunting About Pursuit Am Quarry Go Truths Human Conscious Thinker Need
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. Laura Riding
Experience Degree Possible Poetry Beyond Go Itself Same Cannot Which Consciousness Brings

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