Louise Bogan (1929)
Must I tell again
In the words I know
For the ears of men
The flesh, the blow?
Must I show outright
The bruise in the side,
The halt in the night,
And how death cried?
Must I speak to the lot
Who little bore?
It said Why not?
It said Once more.
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from Poetry Speaks
Louise Bogan
sample from the above link:
The writing process for Bogan was painful and exacting; poems came rarely and at a cost. Her poem "The Daemon" depicts her muse as a monster demanding revelations again and again.
There is also a Pulitzer Prize winning biography by Elizabeth Frank: Louise Bogan: A Portrait (1985)
So much for the " Do More" doctrine
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