Eavan Boland Quotes

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.

Eavan Boland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 24, 1944

Topics

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I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

Jodelle Ferland

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It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

FearAloneGreatExperienceWarMe

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

John Gray

LoveWomenRespectMenChance

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Ann Coulter

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Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.

Jeff Giles

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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Stanley Baldwin

TrustWomanManReasonWouldRather

I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.

Ritika Singh

CharacterStoryDoneBecauseVery

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Ruth Rendell

PoliticsKnewQuiteBeforeAbout

I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but working at a restaurant seven days a week and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and all that kind of stuff.

Mircea Monroe

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I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Miuccia Prada

FreedomMenPushClothesTrySome

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Jay Griffiths

SilenceMindWorldLossHuman

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

Joseph Brodsky

SatisfiedWriterSeldomHeHimself

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