Authority Quote 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…

— 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…

— Eavan Boland

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

— Eavan Boland

Love will heal What language fails to know

— Eavan Boland

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

— Eavan Boland

I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Eavan Boland