The end of poetry is not to

“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

Author: Laura Riding
Category: poetry
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