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

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

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

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

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Louise Bogan

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

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
Louise Bogan