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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.


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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.



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.



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.



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?



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.



People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.



Truth rings no bells.

Truth rings no bells.



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.

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.



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.



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.





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