Quotes by Louise Bogan

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 the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Giving

Grief

Suffering

… 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.

Ambition

Art

Hysteria

…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.

Despair

Giving

Heart

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

Midnight

Running

Tears

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Believe

Ideas

Littles

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

Childhood

Children

Hell

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?

Believe

Men

Spiritual

But it’s silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. … It doesn’t come to you on the wings of a dove. It’s something you have to work hard at.

Hard Work

Silly

Writing

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.

Choices

Hate

Joy

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!

Beauty

Encouragement

Happiness

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Art

Attitude

Beast

Beauty

Believe

Certain

Certitude

Childhood

Children

Choices

Class

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Crowns

Dark

Despair

Emotional

Encouragement

Fiction

Firsts

Flower

Forbidden

Form

Giving

Grief

Hair

Happiness

Hard Work

Hate

Heart

Hell

Hysteria

Ideas

Impossible

Intuition

Journey

Joy

Light

Littles

Long

Lost

Lying

May

Men

Midnight

Moving

Mystery

Order

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Quotes by Louise Bogan

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 the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

… 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.

…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.

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

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

But it’s silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. … It doesn’t come to you on the wings of a dove. It’s something you have to work hard at.

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.

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!

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