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Laura Riding

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Laura Riding

Poetry

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Laura Riding means that poetry captures every kind of experience equally, without ranking or separating them. It reaches the deepest level of awareness that the mind is capable of, where no further understanding can be gained.

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