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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...

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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...

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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...

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Laura Riding

Poet

Born: 1901-01-16

Died: 1991-09-02

Laura Riding (January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991) was a controversial modernist American poet and literary critic, associated initially with the Fugitives and later with Robert Graves. She was born Laura Reichenthal, and her married names were Laura Riding Gottschalk and Laura (Riding) Jackson.More