Eavan Boland Quotes

I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.

Eavan Boland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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Businesses and households react to lower rates by investing and spending more. Lower rates also support the prices of housing and financial assets such as stocks and bonds.

Jerome Powell

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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

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For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.

Tom Hodgkinson

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Robert Bork

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I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

Rob Brown

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At the end of the day, especially in retail, you've got humans serving humans. And really, the more engaged and happier the associates are, the happier our guests are. It's not complicated.

Mary Dillon

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I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.

Mike Posner

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It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Joyce Meyer

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Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

Bonnie Hunt

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I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

Brandon Boyd

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I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.

Anne Wojcicki

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