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Laura Riding quotes

American Poet January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991

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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. Laura Riding
Take hands. There is no love now. But there are hands. There is no joining now, But a joining has been. Of the fastening of fingers. And their opening. More than the clasp even, the kiss. Speaks loneliness, How we dwell apart, And how love triumphs in this. Laura Riding
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
As stone suffers of stoniness, As light of its shiningness, As birds of their wingedness, So I of my whoness. And what the cure of all this? What the not and not suffering? What the better and later of this? What the more me of me? How for the pain-world to be More world and no pain? How for the faithful rain to fall More wet and more dry? How for the wilful blood to run More salt-red and sweet-white? And how for me in my actualness To more shriek and more smile? By no other miracles, By... Laura Riding
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
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
People will think you brilliant only if you tell them what they know. To avoid being thought brilliant, avoid knowing what they know. Write to discover to yourselfwhat you know. Anarchism is Not Enough Laura Riding
Laura Riding quote: "Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the..."
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. Laura Riding
Laura Riding quote: "To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the..."
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
Laura Riding quote: "Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what..."
Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me. I cannot but perfect it Laura Riding
Laura Riding quote: "I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not..."
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. Laura Riding
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. Laura Riding
the words are only part of the poeticformula: the rest is ritual, and thereason in THEM must contend with themechanics of magic-making in IT -- andmust not win. Laura Riding
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
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

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