Louise Bogan Quotes

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• 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…
• No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
• Perhaps this very instant is your time.
• Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
• Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
• Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
• But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
• The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist.…
• Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
• Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
• I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
• True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.
• I don't like quintessential certitude.
• Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.
• 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.
• O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.
• I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
• ...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to…
• At midnight tears Run into your ears.
• The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

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