Louise Bogan Quotes

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Louise Bogan



But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Louise Bogan



Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Louise Bogan



No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

Louise Bogan



Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Louise Bogan



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.

Louise Bogan



Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Louise Bogan