The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is no — Laura Riding
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is no — Laura Riding
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is no — Laura Riding
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is no — Laura Riding
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is no — Laura Riding
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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
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