Quotessence
Home / Authors / Laura Riding
Laura Riding

Laura Riding Quotes

Poet

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenMayFirstsHas BeensHumansIfsKindPeopleStoriesThinkingTwoArtGivingIdeasReligionUseWritingEffectsImportantKnows

Famous Laura Riding Quotes

“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.”

IfsKnowsWritingMeanHas BeensNamesIndividualPracticeCenturyStyleObjectsPeriodsPursueIndividualismSoleImitationConformConcealedEccentricityPseudoIndividual Style
Author:Laura Riding
Create image

“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.”

KnowsFeelsTryingFirstsKindTwoImportantFeelingsFeltUnderstandingEmotionAvailableAffectedStanding OutConcentratingUnderstanding You
Author:Laura Riding
Create image