Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.
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 … - Laura Riding
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 …
- Laura Riding
Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself. - Laura Riding
Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.
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… - Laura Riding
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…
People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning. - Laura Riding
People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The… - Laura Riding
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The…
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. - Laura Riding
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? - Laura Riding
I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various su… - Laura Riding
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various su…
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but i… - Laura Riding
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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