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

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

— Laura Riding

#art #creative #indeed #referring #social

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

— Laura Riding

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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

#know #little #make #more #something

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

— Laura Riding

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There can be no literary equivalent to truth. ↗

— Laura Riding

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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

#making #mere #only #poem #poet

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

#circumference #criticism #draw #hollow #like