Eavan Boland Quotes

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I think of what great art removes:
Hazard and death, the future and the past.

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

Imagine how they stood there, what they stood with
that their possessions may become our power.
Cardboard. Iron. Their hardships parcelled in them.

Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

Born: September 24, 1944

Died: April 27, 2020 (aged 75)

Bio: Eavan Boland was an Irish poet, author, and professor who was active since the 1960s. She was also a professor at Stanford University.

Known for:

Outside History (1990)
New Collected Poems (2005)
In a Time of Violence (1994)
The Lost Land: Poems (1998)
Against love poetry (2001)

Eavan Boland on Wikipedia

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