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Louise Bogan quotes

American Poet August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970

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In the country whereto I go I shall not see the face of my friend Nor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses; Together we shall not find The land on whose hills bends the new moon In air traversed of birds. What have I thought of love? I have said, "It is beauty and sorrow." I have thought that it would bring me lost delights, and splendor As a wind out of old time . . . But there is only the evening here, And the sound of willows Now and again dipping their long oval leaves in the... Louise Bogan
You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here where trees are planted by water. I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret, And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say. Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan quote: "Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love..."
Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love it all; I could not love it enough. Louise Bogan
Pasture, stone wall, and steeple, What most perturbs the mind: The heart-rending homely people, Or the horrible beautiful kind? Louise Bogan
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: "The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the..."
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? 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
...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. Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan quote: "O remember. In your narrowing dark hours. That more things..."
O remember. In your narrowing dark hours. That more things move. Than blood in the heart. Louise Bogan
...Unaccustomed sense of peace did not depend on...'the whim of any fallible creature, or...economic security, or the weather. I don't know where it comes from. Jung states that such serenity is always a miracle...I am so glad that the therapists of my maturity and the saints of my childhood agree on one thing. Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan quote: "Perhaps this very instant is your time."
Perhaps this very instant is your time. 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
Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you. Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan quote: "I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all..."
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. Louise Bogan
Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all. Louise Bogan

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