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The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.

Laura Riding's Popular Quotes

The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but …

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

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A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty…

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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 su…

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Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but i…

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People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

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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…

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

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