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Louise Bogan quotes: No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

Louise Bogan quotes: The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Louise Bogan quotes: At midnight tearsRun into your ears.

At midnight tears
Run into your ears.

Louise Bogan quotes: The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

Louise Bogan quotes: O rememberIn your narrowing dark hoursThat more things moveThan blood in the heart.

O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in the heart.

Louise Bogan quotes: O God, in the dream the terrible horse beganTo paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.

O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.

Louise Bogan quotes: Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Louise Bogan quotes: What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

Louise Bogan quotes: I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan quotes: The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

Louise Bogan quotes: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple,What most perturbs the mind:The heart-rending homely people,Or the horrible beautiful kind?

Pasture, stone wall, and steeple,
What most perturbs the mind:
The heart-rending homely people,
Or the horrible beautiful kind?

Louise Bogan quotes: I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Louise Bogan quotes: But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Louise Bogan quotes: Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.

Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.

Louise Bogan quotes: Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Louise Bogan quotes: The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

Louise Bogan quotes: The terrible beast, that no one may understand,Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

The terrible beast, that no one may understand,
Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

Louise Bogan quotes: Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Louise Bogan quotes: The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almostwell.

The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost
well.

Louise Bogan quotes: Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Louise Bogan quotes: A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

Louise Bogan quotes: Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

Louise Bogan quotes: Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,And madness chooses out my voice again,Again.

Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
And madness chooses out my voice again,
Again.

Louise Bogan quotes: I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Louise Bogan quotes: Politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Louise Bogan quotes: I don't like quintessential certitude.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

Louise Bogan quotes: Goodbye, goodbye!There was so much to love, I could not love it all;I could not love it enough.

Goodbye, goodbye!
There was so much to love, I could not love it all;
I could not love it enough.

Louise Bogan quotes: True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

Louise Bogan quotes: All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

Louise Bogan quotes: It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Louise Bogan quotes: O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated afterchildbirth!O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
childbirth!
O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

Louise Bogan quotes: Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Louise Bogan quotes: Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Louise Bogan quotes: I'll lie here and learnHow, over their ground,Trees make a long shadowAnd a light sound.

I'll lie here and learn
How, over their ground,
Trees make a long shadow
And a light sound.

Louise Bogan quotes: Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Louise Bogan quotes: You need some place to work in. That's the door half open.

You need some place to work in. That's the door half open.

Louise Bogan quotes: It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.