Competition Quote by Louise Bogan

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

— Louise Bogan

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

— Louise Bogan

I don't like quintessential certitude.

— Louise Bogan

“You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here where trees are planted…

— Louise Bogan

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

— Louise Bogan

“Leave-Taking" I do not know where either of us can turn Just at first, waking from the sleep of each other. I do not…

— Louise Bogan

But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a…

— Louise Bogan

“Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all.”

— Louise Bogan

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

— Louise Bogan

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

— Louise Bogan

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

— Louise Bogan