Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Quote by Louise Bogan

Topics: Achievement Quotes, Innocence Quotes

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should...

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should...

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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

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

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

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

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot...

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot...

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he...

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he...