Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
"Louise Bogan" was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth United States Poet Laureate/Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945.
As poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine for nearly 40 years, Bogan played a major role in shaping mainstream poetic sensibilities of the mid-20th Century.
The Poetry Foundation notes that Bogan has been called by some critics the most accomplished woman poet of the twentieth century. It further notes that, "Some critics have placed her in a category of brilliant minor poets described as the "reactionary generation." This group eschewed the prevailing Modernist forms that would come to dominate the literary landscape of the era in favor of more traditional techniques.
Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor Brett C. Millier named Bogan "one of the finest lyric poets America has produced," and added that "the fact that she was a woman and that she defended formal, lyric poetry in an age of expansive experimentation made evaluation of her work, until quite recently, somewhat condescending."
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Louise Bogan on Wikipedia.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!
Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
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.
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.
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