Eavan Boland Quotes

The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

Eavan Boland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodFaithWritingLiteratureIrish

Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical.

Jessica Williams

KindStrangeReactionMagicalIdea

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.

Jerry Saltz

LifeStyleYearEarlyNewPersonal

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

HappyWorldKingsThingsSureFull

I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!

Ann Hood

LifeLoveHopeHistoryI AmPeople

Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.

Stephen Rodrick

TimeImpossibleConversationMove

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

Mike Tyson

DayFightOne DayGuyGoingGet

Junk food drags you down.

Miranda Lambert

FoodYouDownJunk FoodJunk

Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

Joseph Brodsky

SocietyLiteratureTragedyOutWhich

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ExperienceWordsOrganizingComfort

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

Dayananda Saraswati

HonestyJusticeWealthEarnedThing

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

Debby Boone

LoveMusicChristianDoingCareer

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

Chrisette Michele

LoveMusicArtMeWorldThink

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