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Louise Bogan [1897-1970] American
Rank: 105
Poet (with poems)

Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Laureate


Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945.
As poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine for nearly 40 years, Bogan played a major role in shaping mainstream poetic sensibilities of the mid-20th Century.

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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. Work
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Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
102
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.
103
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
104
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
105
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
106
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
107

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