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Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

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

Source: In letter to Theodore Roethke, in Achievement in American Poetry: 1900-50, 1951.
-- 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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