Laura Riding Quotes

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

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  Missing, Stories, Goes On

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• El problema del bien y del mal no es el problema del bien y del mal, sino sólo el problema del mal. En oposición al bien hay personajes malos, pero no hay personajes buenos en oposición al mal. El mal es discutible, pero el bien no. Por lo tanto, el Diablo siempre gana la discusión.

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  Character, Winning, Evil

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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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  Degrees, Consciousness

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• People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

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  Wisdom, Thinking, People

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

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  God, Mets, Said

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”

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• How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Giving

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• Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

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  Spiritual, Religion, Vacancy

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

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  Looks, Trouble

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• The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.

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  Views, Vices, Attention

  "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

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• A una niña se le debe permitir tomarse todo el tiempo que necesite para conocer todo sobre sí misma, que es lo mismo que aprender a ser ella misma. Incluso veinticinco años si es necesario, o incluso para siempre. Y no importaría que el hacer las cosas se retrasara, porque nada es realmente importante salvo ser uno mismo.

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  Children, Years, Knowing Everything

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• Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.

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  Long, Giving, May

  "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

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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 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.

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  Running, Art, People

  "Anarchism Is Not Enough". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter: "The Myth", 1928.

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• Truth rings no bells.

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  Truth, Bells, Rings

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• When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.

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  Provision, Attainment, Practicals

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

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  Musical, Poetic, Fit

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• To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.

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  Religion, Stories, May

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

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  Stories, Telling The Truth, Function

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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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  Creer, Magia, Doe

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• I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.

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  Two, Understanding, Feelings

  "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Men, Two, Entering

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• Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

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  Learning, Thinking, Bridges

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

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  Spiritual, Religious, Use

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• Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.

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  Art, Inspiration, Men

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• Women are strangers in the country of man.

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  Country, Men, Stranger

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

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  Women, People, Way

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