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

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

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

- 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…

- Laura Riding

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

- Laura Riding

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

- Laura Riding

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various su…

- 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…

- Laura Riding