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... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
Louise BoganAll art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.
Louise BoganIntellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.
Louise Bogan