Louise Bogan Quotes
22 quotes
in 263 categories
-
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?
Browse Louise Bogan Quotes by Category