Louise Bogan quotes

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. (Louise Bogan)
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. View quote
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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. View quote
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. View quote
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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. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. View quote
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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 joy! View quote
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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. View quote
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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. View quote
Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan

Occupation: American Poet
Born: August 11, 1897
Died: February 4, 1970
Quotes count: 8