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
beauty believe axes
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!
instant
Perhaps this very instant is your time.
acceptance views diversity
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
agony marble statues
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
strong real men
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.
kindness blow abuse
A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.
taste crowns impossible
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.