Louise Bogan Quotes

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

Louise Bogan
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
The initial mystery that attends each journey is: how did the traveller reach his starting point in the first place?

Louise Bogan
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
There was so much to love I could not love it all; I could not love it enough.

Louise Bogan
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Louise Bogan
Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phenomena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

Louise Bogan
The mountain comes and goes
Like a watermark
On celestial paper.

Louise Bogan
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Louise Bogan
I burned my life, that I might find A passion wholly of the mind, Thought divorced from eye and bone, Ecstasy come to breath alone.

Louise Bogan
Miss Sitwell is so skillful and so dazzling that she almost persuades us that spiritual intensity follows upon verbal intensity, which may or may not be true.

Louise Bogan