Eavan Boland Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.”
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“Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.”
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“Love will heal What language fails to know”
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“. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing”
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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.”
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“Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken”
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“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
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