Eavan Boland Best Quotes & Sayings

I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things. — Adam D'Angelo

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

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

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

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

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. — Holly Near

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them. — Elliott Abrams

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

Cannot find the comfort in this world. — Eddie Vedder

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

Living in a spiritual manner, exhibiting a joyous and mindful embrace of the manifold wonders of an earthy existence, enhances life. A person develops spirituality by spending solitary time thinking about the larger issues in life. Scripting a personal philosophy for conducting a person's life is a spiritual testament. A spiritual person seeks a system of general truths that encoded statement transforms their character. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Such artistic forays into the countryside had been made easier by the invention, in 1824, of metal tubes for oil paints, which replaced the messy and awkward pig bladders in which artists of previous generations had kept their paints; and by the introduction of collapsible three-legged stools and portable easels, both of which could be carried into the countryside by the artist.18 — Ross King

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