“ The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political des… 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 mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I… Eavan Boland
“ Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life. Eavan Boland
“ It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry -… Eavan Boland
“ . . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing Eavan Boland
