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.

~ Laura Riding

Laura Riding Art People Run

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.

~ Laura Riding

Laura Riding Art Truth Problem

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.

~ Laura Riding

Laura Riding Memory Mind End