Louise BoganO remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.372Love
Louise BoganI don't like quintessential certitude. ✨ Louise Bogan (1973). What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P365Love
Louise BoganYour work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.343Thought
Louise BoganWomen have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. ✨ Body of this Death (1923) Women322DeathLoveReading
Louise Bogan...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… ▶378LoveReflectionTime
Louise BoganI hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. ✨ Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bog… ▶337DeathHope
Louise BoganThe Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? ✨ Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). Journey around my room… ▶3010Sadness
Louise BoganBecause language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. ✨ Louise Bogan (1970). A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections… ▶223ReflectionThought
Louise BoganPerhaps this very instant is your time. ✨ Louise Bogan (2005). A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems, Swallow Press289Time
Louise BoganNo more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. ✨ Louise Bogan (1973). What the woman lived: selected letters of Lo… ▶191Reading
Louise BoganI 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 (1973). … ▶2610Humor
Louise BoganUp from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall. ✨ Louise Bogan (1941). Poems and new poems2410Politics
Louise BoganStupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.218Hope
Louise BoganAt midnight tears Run into your ears. ✨ Louise Bogan (1941). Poems and new poems189Death
Louise BoganI'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound. ✨ Louise Bogan (1941). Poems and new poems1910Life
Louise BoganThe 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 bourgeois… ▶167Reflection
Louise BoganTrue revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.168Truth
Louise BoganBut childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.157Humor
Louise BoganInnocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ✨ Louise Bogan (2005). A poet's prose: sele… ▶137Love
