The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.
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
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
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? - Louise Bogan
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
...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
...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…
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
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…
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
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time. - Louise Bogan
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.
I don't like quintessential certitude. - Louise Bogan
I don't like quintessential certitude.
A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows. - Louise Bogan
A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.
Perhaps this very instant is your time. - Louise Bogan
Perhaps this very instant is your time.
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