I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my… — 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
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with… — 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… — 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
“Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.” — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an… — 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
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
