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Louise Bogan (1897 - 1970 / Maine / United States)
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Louise Bogan was born in Livermore Falls, Maine, in 1897. She attended Boston Girls' Latin School and spent one year at Boston University. She married .. more >>
22 poems of Louise Bogan
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  ''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 (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. "A Revolution in European Poetry," (written 1941), published in A Poet's Alphabet (1970).
 
  It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death—subjects as ancient as huma...
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet. As quoted in Our Ground Time Here Will be Brief, Epigram, by Maxine Kumin (1982).
 
  ''Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
And madness chooses out my voice again,
Again.''
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Cassandra (l. 4-6). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; repr. 1988) Ecco P...
 
  ''But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.''
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet and critic. repr. In Selected Criticism: Poetry and Prose (1955). "Childhood's False Eden," (1940). Referring ...
 
  ''But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.''
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet and critic. repr. In Selected Criticism: Poetry and Prose (1955). "Childhood's False Eden," (1940). Referring ...
 
  The cats will be glad; the fathers feel justified; the mothers
relieved.
The sons and husbands will no longer need to pay the bills.
Childhoods will be put away, the obscene nightmare a...
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Evening in the Sanitarium (l. 21-23). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; ...
 
  ''The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost
well.''
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Evening in the Sanitarium (l. 6). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; repr...
 
  ''You will be again as normal and selfish and heartless as anybody
else.''
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Evening in the Sanitarium (l. 15). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; rep...
 
  ''O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
childbirth!
O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!''
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Evening in the Sanitarium (l. 11-12). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; ...
 
  ''the bare eyes were before me
And the hissing hair,
Held up at a window, seen through a door.
The stiff bald eyes, the serpents on the forehead
Formed in the air.''
Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Medusa (l. 5-9). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; repr. 1988) Ecco Pres...
 

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