Quotes About Eavan

#1. 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

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

Eavan Boland

#3. Love will heal
What language fails to know

Eavan Boland

#4. I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Poppy Z. Brite

#5. 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

#6. I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

Jesse Williams

#7. One big difference between our situation in Myanmar and other situations around the world is that we're not just trying to achieve peace with one group but 11 groups - so it is incredibly complicated as well.

Thein Sein

#8. A grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

Frank O'Connor

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

Eavan Boland

#10. Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love. It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening.

William R. Bradford

#11. I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Kanye West

#12. On the illusive "Monsieur Hortalez." When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 rue Vieille-du-Temple and realized we had been there before.

Sarah Vowell

#13. 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

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

Eavan Boland

#15. I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.

Robert Jackson Bennett

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

Eavan Boland

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

Eavan Boland

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

Eavan Boland