Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan
Louise Boganwas an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 August 1897
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual believe men
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?
moving heart dark
O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.
two tumbling immortal
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
struggle squares competition
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
childhood hell
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
flower order class
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.
certain quintessential certitude
I don't like quintessential certitude.
form forbidden subjects
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.
running tears ears
At midnight tears Run into your ears.
wife feelings lucky
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!
dream horse blow
O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.
autumn blood years
The measured blood beats out the year's delay.
song wings voice
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.
grief giving suffering
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.