Louise Bogan Quotes

"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
(Related: Class, Order)

"Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Work)

"But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Childhood, Hell)

"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
(Related: Ideas, Language)

"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Evil, Stupidity)

"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Competition)