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 trou…

- Louise Bogan

...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 worl…

- Louise Bogan

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

- Louise Bogan

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 h…

- Louise Bogan

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

- Louise Bogan

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

- Louise Bogan

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

- Louise Bogan

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

- Louise Bogan

I don't like quintessential certitude.

- Louise Bogan