A thousand kindnesses do not ...

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.
 Louise Bogan

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It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
 Louise Bogan
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
 Louise Bogan
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
 Louise Bogan
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
 Louise Bogan
O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.
 Louise Bogan