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I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of reality. That they made my life happen, rather than just recorded it happening. -- Eavan Boland
This is what language is:
a habitual grief. A turn of speech
for the everyday and ordinary abrasion
of losses such as this:
which hurts
just enough to be a scar
And heals just enough to be a nation. -- Eavan Boland
We love fog because
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing -- Eavan Boland
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life. -- Eavan Boland
If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift. -- Eavan Boland
Love will heal
What language fails to know -- Eavan Boland
As soon as I take down her book and open it ... My skies rise higher and hang younger stars. -- Eavan Boland
Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken. -- Eavan Boland
Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it. -- Eavan Boland