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

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