Top 9 Eavan Boland Quotes
#1. If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.
Eavan Boland
#2. Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Eavan Boland
#3. Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.
Eavan Boland
#4. Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.
Eavan Boland
#5. I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of reality. That they made my life happen, rather than just recorded it happening.
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#6. We love fog because
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing
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#7. As soon as I take down her book and open it ... My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.
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#8. This is what language is:
a habitual grief. A turn of speech
for the everyday and ordinary abrasion
of losses such as this:
which hurts
just enough to be a scar
And heals just enough to be a nation.
Eavan Boland
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