Quotes by Louise Bogan

• Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
• 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.
• Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
• But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
• Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
• Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
• No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.