I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry. — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed.… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time.… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
