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.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.