Louise Bogan Quotations

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

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.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

... 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, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

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

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

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.

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.