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

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Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan, an American poet, was born on August 11, 1897, and died on February 4, 1970. Her poetry is known for its simplicity, depth, and emotional richness, often exploring themes of personal emotion and the human condition. more

“Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.”

Source: A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems

“Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.”

World Ability Information Perception Patterns Organize

Author:Brian Greene

“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.”

World Littles Reality Lasts Poetry Emotion Poet Focused Lovely Bitter Resorts Finding Peace

Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

“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 have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”

Writing Ideas Soul Hard Poetry Emotional Hard Work Wings Silly Fancy Poetry Is Dove Ethereal

Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

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

Poetry Generations Poetry Is

Book:A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

Source: A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

“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.”

Facts Stories Lines Fiction Hair Crosses Logic Intuition Short Story Severe Precision Coordinates

Book:A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

Source: A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

“I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.”

Believe Lost Work One Thing Universal Panacea Lost Faith

Book:What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970

Source: What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970

“... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.”

Giving Whole Suffering Grief Modern Tendencies Substance Something New Globes

Author:Louise Bogan

“... 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.”

Art Dies Ambition Hatred Sand Hysteria Gravel Art And Life

Book:What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970

Source: What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970

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