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

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

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

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

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