All 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… Axes
- No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. Competition
- Perhaps this very instant is your time. Funny
- Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. Believe
- Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. Accompanies
- Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. Achievement
- But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. Becomes
- 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.… Born
- Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. Agony
- Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. Bread
- I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound. Ground
- True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy. Art
- I don't like quintessential certitude. Certain
- Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall. Air
- 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. Been
- O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart. Blood
- I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. All
- ...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… Anguish
- At midnight tears Run into your ears. Ears
- The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? Any
- The measured blood beats outthe year's delay. Beats