Best Quotes by Louise Bogan (Top 10)

  1. The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place~?
  2. I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
  3. 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!
  4. O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.
  5. ...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
  6. Perhaps this very instant is your time.
  7. Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
  8. I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
  9. Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
  10. Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

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