Louise Bogan Quotes

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

Stupidity, Evil

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

Heart, Feeling, Cannot

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

Else, Easy, Language

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

Cannot, Hell, Childhood

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

Struggling, Hidden, Lousy

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

Flower, Himself, Born

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

Work, Agony, Marble

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: August 11, 1897

Died: February 4, 1970

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