Laura Riding Poetry Quotes

What did Laura Riding say about Poetry?

Laura Riding has written many quotes about Poetry. E.g.,

• To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
• 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.
• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by Laura Riding?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by Laura Riding.

• To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
• 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.
• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.