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Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

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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.

Source: Some Notes on Popular and Unpopular Art, 1943.
-- Louise A Bogan, (Aug 11 1897-1970), US lyric poet, critic; She wrote Body of This Death, 1923; A Poet's Alphabet, 1970.

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