It is through the acceptance ...

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
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

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

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