Quotes About Boland

#1. If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

Eavan Boland

#2. Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

Boland T. Jones

#3. In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

Lafcadio Hearn

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

Eavan Boland

#5. Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.

Eavan Boland

#6. Life's a bitch and then you die and death's a bitch too. Only my life was lovely and I miss it so much.

Shalini Boland

#7. Unless you bring a beating heart into your message, it is dead' (Author unknown)

That's why I wrote my how-to book, "Don't Write your MEmoir without ME". If there's no "this is me" in your memoir, it won't resonate with your readers the way you hope it will.

Viga Boland

#8. Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.

Eavan Boland

#9. I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

Yanis Varoufakis

#10. 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.

Eavan Boland

#11. The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

Lorraine Hansberry

#12. We love fog because
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Eavan Boland

#13. The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

Rei Kawakubo

#14. As soon as I take down her book and open it ... My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.

Eavan Boland

#15. 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

#16. Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness ... The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. - Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS

Kathleen Norris

#17. God calls each person individually. He said that a man and his wife were one flesh, but not one spirit

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Love will heal
What language fails to know

Eavan Boland