Quotes by : Eavan Boland

The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After....

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

It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not....

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

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from....