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Laura Riding

  1. Four Unposted Letters to Catherine Laura Riding ““People who for some reason find it impossible to think about themselves, and so really be themselves, try to make up for not thinking with doing.”” In 1930, the poet Laura Riding wrote a series of...

    Four Unposted Letters to Catherine

    Laura Riding

    “People who for some reason find it impossible to think about themselves, and so really be themselves, try to make up for not thinking with doing.”

    In 1930, the poet Laura Riding wrote a series of extraordinary letters to an 8-year-old girl about what it means to be oneself – some of the finest, most insightful life-advice ever committed to words: