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At midnight tears
Run into your ears.
Louise Bogan Quotes: At midnight tears<br />Run into
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.
Louise Bogan Quotes: The art of one period
The soprano studies for seven years in order to be able to open her mouth and make loud sounds for three hours on end.
Louise Bogan Quotes: The soprano studies for seven
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 world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
Louise Bogan Quotes: In a time lacking in
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 Quotes: Because language is the carrier
All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.
Louise Bogan Quotes: All art, in spite of
Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride,
Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall.
Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die,
Having endured them all.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Slipping in blood, by his
I don't like quintessential certitude.
Louise Bogan Quotes: I don't like quintessential certitude.
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 troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Hate does not present many
I'll lie here and learn
How, over their ground,
Trees make a long shadow
And a light sound.
Louise Bogan Quotes: I'll lie here and learn<br>How,
In the country whereto I go
I shall not see the face of my friend
Nor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses;
Together we shall not find
The land on whose hills bends the new moon
In air traversed of birds.
What have I thought of love?
I have said, "It is beauty and sorrow."
I have thought that it would bring me lost delights, and splendor
As a wind out of old time ...
But there is only the evening here,
And the sound of willows
Now and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water.
from "Betrothed
Louise Bogan Quotes: In the country whereto I
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.
Louise Bogan Quotes: The fact, and the intuition
Leave-Taking"

I do not know where either of us can turn
Just at first, waking from the sleep of each other.
I do not know how we can bear
The river struck by the gold plummet of the moon,
Or many trees shaken together in the darkness.
We shall wish not to be alone
And that love were not dispersed and set free -
Though you defeat me,
And I be heavy upon you.

But like earth heaped over the heart
Is love grown perfect.
Like a shell over the beat of life
Is love perfect to the last.
So let it be the same
Whether we turn to the dark or to the kiss of another;
Let us know this for leavetaking,
That I may not be heavy upon you,
That you may blind me no more.

Originally published in Poetry, August 1922.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Leave-Taking
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Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
And madness chooses out my voice again,
Again.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Song, like a wing, tears
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
Louise Bogan Quotes: I hope that one or
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
Louise Bogan Quotes: No more pronouncements on lousy
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or
Song for the Last Act

Now that I have your face by heart, I look

Less at its features than its darkening frame

Where quince and melon, yellow as young flame,

Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd's crook.

Beyond, a garden. There, in insolent ease

The lead and marble figures watch the show

Of yet another summer loath to go

Although the scythes hang in the apple trees.


Now that I have your face by heart, I look.


Now that I have your voice by heart, I read

In the black chords upon a dulling page

Music that is not meant for music's cage,

Whose emblems mix with words that shake and bleed.

The staves are shuttled over with a stark

Unprinted silence. In a double dream

I must spell out the storm, the running stream.

The beat's too swift. The notes shift in the dark.


Now that I have your voice by heart, I read.


Now that I have your heart by heart, I see

The wharves with their great ships and architraves;

The rigging and the cargo and the slaves

On a strange beach under a broken sky.

O not departure, but a voyage done!

The bales stand on the stone; the anchor weeps

Its red rust downward, and the long vine creeps

Beside the salt herb, in the lengthening
Louise Bogan Quotes: Song for the Last Act<br
Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Women have no wilderness in
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Up from the bronze, I
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Innocence of heart and violence
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Louise Bogan Quotes: But childhood prolonged, cannot remain
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
childbirth!
O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!
Louise Bogan Quotes: O fortunate bride, who never
Perhaps this very instant is your time.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Perhaps this very instant is
O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in the heart.
Louise Bogan Quotes: O remember<br>In your narrowing dark
But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?
Louise Bogan Quotes: But is there any reason
Unaccustomed sense of peace did not depend on ... 'the whim of any fallible creature, or ... economic security, or the weather. I don't know where it comes from. Jung states that such serenity is always a miracle ... I am so glad that the therapists of my maturity and the saints of my childhood agree on one thing.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Unaccustomed sense of peace did
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.
Louise Bogan Quotes: It is almost impossible for
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
Louise Bogan Quotes: The Initial Mystery that attends
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life ... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death
subjects as ancient as humanity
these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.
Louise Bogan Quotes: It is not possible, for
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.
Louise Bogan Quotes: True revolutions in art restore
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 Quotes: It is through the acceptance
The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost
well.
Louise Bogan Quotes: The women rest their tired
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Poetry is often generations in
You need some place to work in. That's the door half open.
Louise Bogan Quotes: You need some place to
The measured blood beats out the year's delay.
Louise Bogan Quotes: The measured blood beats out
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Louise Bogan Quotes: I cannot believe that the
Politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Politics are nothing but sand
Tea instead of gin will warm the heart.
Louise Bogan Quotes: Tea instead of gin will
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.
Louise Bogan Quotes: What we suffer, what we
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