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> [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. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/i-began-to-write-in-an-enclosed-self-confident-literary-culture-the/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

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## More by Eavan Boland

> [I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/i-didn-t-know-how-to-weigh-ideas-about-poetry-nothing-in-the-life-i/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/it-has-always-seemed-to-me-a-great-honor-to-be-called-an-irish-poet-i/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/flesh-is-heretic-my-body-is-a-witch-i-am-burning-it/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [Love will heal What language fails to know](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/love-will-heal-what-language-fails-to-know/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/sleep-in-a-world-your-final-sleep-has-woken/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/i-loved-the-illusion-the-conviction-the-desire-whatever-you-want-to/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/when-i-was-young-i-struggled-with-authorship-with-everything-the-word/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/one-of-the-things-women-poets-have-been-engaged-in-among-the-other/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/in-those-years-of-the-fifties-in-london-and-new-york-i-lived-without/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/i-began-to-write-in-an-enclosed-self-confident-literary-culture-the/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/as-far-as-i-was-concerned-it-was-the-absence-of-women-in-the-poetic/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/i-had-started-writing-as-a-poet-in-a-closed-post-revival/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/there-is-nothing-settled-about-a-poet-s-identity-the-becoming-doesn-t/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/i-once-gave-a-workshop-and-i-asked-the-women-poets-there-if-you-went/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

> [The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/the-nineteenth-century-especially-the-second-half-of-it-was-a-time-of/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

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