Author: Eavan Boland

Quotes

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

- Eavan Boland

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

- Eavan Boland

I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.

I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.

- Eavan Boland

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

- Eavan Boland

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