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
poetry generations poetry-is
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.
lying light long
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
silly writing hard-work
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.
fall air water
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.
agony marble statues
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
heart giving despair
...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.
evil stupidity accompany
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
kindness blow abuse
A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.
instant
Perhaps this very instant is your time.
art ambition hysteria
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
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!
journey firsts mystery
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
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.
art revolution
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.