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• I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

  Louise Bogan

  Two, Tumbling, Immortal

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

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• But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?

  Louise Bogan

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

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

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• 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

  Believe, Ideas, Littles

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

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

  Louise Bogan

  Moving, Heart, Dark

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• The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost
  well.

  Louise Bogan

  Tired, Heart, Health

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

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

  Louise Bogan

  Hate, Choices, Joy

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

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• Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

  Louise Bogan

  Fall, Air, Water

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

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• Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

  Louise Bogan

  Form, Forbidden, Subjects

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

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• It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

  Louise Bogan

  Crowns, Taste, Impossible

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

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• O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
  To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.

  Louise Bogan

  Dream, Horse, Blow

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

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• 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, Order, Class

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

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• O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
  childbirth!
  O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

  Louise Bogan

  Wife, Feelings, Lucky

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

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• The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

  Louise Bogan

  Autumn, Blood, Years

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

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• True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Revolution

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• All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Struggle, Emotion

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

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• The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

  Louise Bogan

  Hair, Intuition, Fiction

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

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

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Attitude, Emotional

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