Author: Laura Riding

Quotes

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

- Laura Riding

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.

- Laura Riding

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

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

- Laura Riding

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.

- Laura Riding

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