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Top 30 Louise Bogan Quotes (2024 Update)

Louise Bogan Quote: “The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”

1. “The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”

— Louise Bogan

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Louise Bogan Quote: “Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.”

2. “Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “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!”

3. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.”

4. “Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “At midnight tears Run into your ears.”

5. “At midnight tears Run into your ears.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “Perhaps this very instant is your time.”

6. “Perhaps this very instant is your time.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.”

7. “But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.”

8. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.”

10. “O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.”

12. “Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.”

13. “True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “I’ll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.”

14. “I’ll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.”

15. “Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.”

17. “A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.”

18. “I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.”

19. “All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.”

20. “No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”

21. “Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.”

22. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “The measured blood beats out the year’s delay.”

24. “The measured blood beats out the year’s delay.”

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Louise Bogan Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.”

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

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “I don’t like quintessential certitude.”

27. “I don’t like quintessential certitude.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Louise Bogan Quote: “I have lost faith in universal panaceas – work is the one thing in which I really believe.”

29. “I have lost faith in universal panaceas – work is the one thing in which I really believe.”

— Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan Quote: “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.”

30. “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

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