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
hate joy choices
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.
health tired heart
The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.
hair intuition fiction
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.
work believe panacea
I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.
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.
song wings voice
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.
autumn blood years
The measured blood beats out the year's delay.
art struggle emotion
All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.
missing suffering done
What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.
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.
heart cells bread
Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
believe ideas littles
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
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!
struggle squares competition
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.