Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.
Laura RidingPoetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura RidingUntil the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.
Laura RidingWhen ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.
Laura RidingHow our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.
Laura Riding