Laura Riding Quote

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.


The Telling (1972)


Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.