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Louise Bogan Quotes

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I don’t like quintessential certitude  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them  (Louise Bogan Quotes) The measured blood beats out the year’s delay  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time  (Louise Bogan Quotes) But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell  (Louise Bogan Quotes) A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows  (Louise Bogan Quotes) 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  (Louise Bogan Quotes) 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 woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?  (Louise Bogan Quotes) The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.  (Louise Bogan Quotes) O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Perhaps this very instant is your time  (Louise Bogan Quotes) True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity  (Louise Bogan Quotes) The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely  (Louise Bogan Quotes) I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling about  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is a sin and a shame to try to organize or dictate them  (Louise Bogan Quotes) ... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred  (Louise Bogan Quotes) ... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier  (Louise Bogan Quotes) Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole  (Louise Bogan Quotes) It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density  (Louise Bogan Quotes) What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private  (Louise Bogan Quotes) It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it  (Louise Bogan Quotes) 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  (Louise Bogan Quotes) I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around  (Louise Bogan Quotes) ... 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 the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart  (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 joy!  (Louise Bogan Quotes) No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square  (Louise Bogan Quotes)
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