Louise Bogan

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

“Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-bl...”

“Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.”

“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.”