49 Quotes by Louise Bogan

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    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.

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    Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.

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    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.

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    O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

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    O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.

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    I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

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    O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.

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