Bogged Quotes
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...if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of “corybulous”, “hypogeum”, “plangent”, “irrefragably”, “glozening”, “tellurian”, “conclamant”, sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.
Randall Jarrell— of Hart Crane’s The Bridge, “Fifty Years of American Poetry”, p. 324
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.
paula modersohn-becker— As quoted in: Norbert Wolf, ?Uta Grosenick (2004) Expressionism, p. 74
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.
peter singer— Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 167
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.
lewis thomas— "The Technology of Medicine"
