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Laura Riding quotes: Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

Laura Riding quotes: People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning ...

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning ...

Laura Riding quotes: My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Laura Riding quotes: Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.

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

Laura Riding quotes: Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Laura Riding quotes: Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

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.

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

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

Laura Riding quotes: Whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Laura Riding quotes: Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Laura Riding quotes: Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

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.

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

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

Laura Riding quotes: In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

Laura Riding quotes: There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Laura Riding quotes: Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

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.

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: Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

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

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

Laura Riding quotes: Rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

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

Laura Riding quotes: Women are strangers in the country of man ...

Women are strangers in the country of man ...

Laura Riding quotes: between the word and the world liefading eternities of soon

between the word and the world lie
fading eternities of soon

Laura Riding quotes: I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?