Louise Bogan Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• 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

  Reality, Poetry, Lovely

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

• 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.

  Louise Bogan

  Silly, Hard Work, Writing

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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

  Louise Bogan

  Poetry, Generations, Poetry Is

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

• It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.

  Louise Bogan

  Life, Writing, Poetry

• Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
  And madness chooses out my voice again,
  Again.

  Louise Bogan

  Song, Wings, Voice

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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