Accidents Quote by Eavan Boland

“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.”

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I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and…

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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…

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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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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…

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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes…

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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the…

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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were…

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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.…

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As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be…

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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 - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

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It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with…

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point…

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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could…

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