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Laura Riding Quotes

How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us Picture Quote #1

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go Picture Quote #1

Women are strangers in the country of man Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning Picture Quote #1

Truth rings no bells Picture Quote #1

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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest Picture Quote #1

Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination Picture Quote #1

What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile’s viewpoint Picture Quote #1

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them Picture Quote #1

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Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people Picture Quote #1

There can be no literary equivalent to truth Picture Quote #1

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious Picture Quote #1

Nature is what you don’t have to trouble about. It looks after itself Picture Quote #1

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse Picture Quote #1

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it Picture Quote #1

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She had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only Picture Quote #1

Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex Picture Quote #1

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell Picture Quote #1

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts Picture Quote #1

We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself.... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work Picture Quote #1

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth Picture Quote #1

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking Picture Quote #1

Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism Picture Quote #1

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How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us (Laura Riding Quotes) Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go (Laura Riding Quotes) Women are strangers in the country of man (Laura Riding Quotes) 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 Quotes) People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning (Laura Riding Quotes) Truth rings no bells (Laura Riding Quotes) I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest (Laura Riding Quotes) Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination (Laura Riding Quotes) What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be (Laura Riding Quotes) 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 Quotes) Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile’s viewpoint (Laura Riding Quotes) Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them (Laura Riding Quotes) Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people (Laura Riding Quotes) There can be no literary equivalent to truth (Laura Riding Quotes) ... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious (Laura Riding Quotes) Nature is what you don’t have to trouble about. It looks after itself (Laura Riding Quotes) Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse (Laura Riding Quotes) Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it (Laura Riding Quotes) She had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only (Laura Riding Quotes) Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex (Laura Riding Quotes) If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell (Laura Riding Quotes) Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts (Laura Riding Quotes) We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves (Laura Riding Quotes) 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 Quotes) Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself.... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work (Laura Riding Quotes) If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth (Laura Riding Quotes) Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking (Laura Riding Quotes) Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings (Laura Riding Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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