It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
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 BoganThe Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
Louise BoganUp from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.
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 BoganBut is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?
Louise Bogan