Louise Bogan Quotes

“The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?”

“True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.”

“Worse than that, however, was the CFO, a dapper-suited, neat-haired new age carapace containing an uninhibited misogynistic bogan, whose actual words to me, in concert with my boss in the same room were: 'To be successful you have to accept that weekends are for families.”

“In the country whereto I goI shall not see the face of my friendNor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses;Together we shall not findThe land on whose hills bends the new moonIn air traversed of birds.What have I thought of love?I have said, "It is beauty and sorrow."I have thought that it would bring me lost delights, and splendorAs a wind out of old time . . .But there is only the evening here,And the sound of willowsNow and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water.-- from "Betrothed”

“‎"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing." Happy birthday to Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)!”

“I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.”

“Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.”

“With heaven in our hearts,life is romancing uswith glimpses ofthe universe dancing.”

“What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?”

“Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.”