"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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Experience
More From Laura Riding
- "Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship."
- "The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself."
- "I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest."
More In Experience
- "A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience."― Edward Norton
- "Any experience can be transformed into something of value."― Vash Young
- "And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience – I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist."― Bob Schieffer