Louise Bogan Quotes

A collection of quotes by Louise Bogan.

Louise Bogan (1897-1970) was an American poet and critic. She is widely recognized for her contributions to modernist poetry, known for her concise, precise, and emotionally intense verse. Bogan served as the poetry editor for The New Yorker during the 1930s and 1940s, where she played a significant role in promoting and publishing the work of emerging poets. Throughout her career, she received numerous prestigious awards, including the Bollingen Prize, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and the Levinson Prize. Bogan's poetry explored themes of love, loss, and the complexities of the human experience.

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead

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

Women

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becom

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Louise Bogan

Youth

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to beli

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

Language

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not bor

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.

Louise Bogan

Intelligence