Eavan Quotes & Sayings

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

If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift. — Eavan Boland

The feminists are trying to tell women that there is really no difference between them and men. Just as men can be promiscuous, women can, too, and go for one night stands without consequences. But there are consequences. The women have the suffering of the abortion. They suffer more with the social diseases. — Phyllis Schlafly

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. — Ai Weiwei

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

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some. — Stevie Smith

I began to watch places with an interest so exact it might have been memory. There was that street corner, with the small newsagent which sold copies of the Irish Independent and honeycomb toffee in summer. I could imagine myself there, a child of nine, buying peppermints and walking back down by the canal, the lock brown and splintered as ever, and boys diving from it.
It became a powerful impulse, a slow intense reconstruction of a childhood which had never happened. A fragrance or a trick of light was enough. Or a house I entered which I wanted not just to appreciate but to remember, and then I would begin. — Eavan Boland

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

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well. — Matt Gonzalez

Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it. — Eavan Boland

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

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life. — Eavan Boland

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo. — Emanuel Celler

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it. — Luis Figo

Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken. — Eavan Boland

Everest you won't change, but I will get better ... I will conquer you. — Edmund Hillary

wave. The members of the rising generation are the most flagrant offenders, and in the decay and disappearing of parental authority we have the certain precursor of the abolition of civic authority. Therefore, in view of the growing disrespect for human law and the refusal to "render honor to whom honor is due," we need not be surprised that the recognition of the majesty, the authority, the sovereignty of the almighty Law-giver should recede more and more into the background, and the masses have less and less patience with those who insist upon them. — Arthur W. Pink

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace. — Tullian Tchividjian

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

Love will heal
What language fails to know — Eavan Boland

From abundance springs satiety. — Livy

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running. — Haile Gebrselassie