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11 quotes by Laura Riding

Laura (Riding) Jackson Born (1901-01-16)16 January 1901 New York City Died 2 September 1991(1991-09-02) (aged 90) Wabasso, Florida, U.S. Pen name Laura Riding Occupation Poet, critic, essayist, novelist Nationality American Genre Poetry Literary movement Modernism, Fugitives Spouse Louis R. Gottschalk (1920–1925) Schuyler B. Jackson (1941–1968)(his death) Partner Robert Graves (1929–1936) Laura (Riding) Jackson (January 16, 1901 –...
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various... →

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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... →

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

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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.

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

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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

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

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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... →

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

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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.

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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... →

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