Author: Eavan Boland

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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

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

- Eavan Boland

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

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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