Louise Bogan Quotes
Top 37 wise famous quotes and sayings by Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.
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.
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.
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!
Pasture, stone wall, and steeple,
What most perturbs the mind:
The heart-rending homely people,
Or the horrible beautiful kind?
What most perturbs the mind:
The heart-rending homely people,
Or the horrible beautiful kind?
Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
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.
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.
All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
childbirth!
O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!
childbirth!
O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!