Quotes About Eavan Boland

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

Eavan Boland

#3. There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

John Ruskin

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

Eavan Boland

#5. Many women crush their own dignity to be with a man. You have to be strong and learn to let go if he's not treating you right!

S.C. Jax

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

Eavan Boland

#7. I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

Romola Garai

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

Eavan Boland

#9. You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.

Royce White

#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. People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.

Peter Singer

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

Eavan Boland

#14. 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

#15. The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. Love will heal
What language fails to know

Eavan Boland