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I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Between Countries Country Distance Grown Had Imagination Irish Other Other Countries Poet Quite Some Up Vision Where Wide

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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

Topics: Censorship Century Distance Faith Good Good Reason Had Ireland Irish Kept Literature Produced Reason Sources Suffered Tense Terrible Twentieth Twentieth Century Writing

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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Claustrophobic Closed Cosmopolitan Effort Evident Exchange Had Intense Life Literary Lived Make More Movement National Now Open Poet Self-Conscious Shadows Started Still Travel Upheaval Were Where World Writers Writing

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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Against Always Any Been Certainly Defined Emphasis Imagination Individual Movement Now Organized Organized Religion Orthodoxy Poetry Rather Referring Religion Romantic Since Some Stance Take Terms Than True Writers

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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Any Field Force Losses Make Nation Ornament Past Recurring Temptation Triumphs Turn Victories Who Within Writer

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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: About Dimension Does Her His Human Ordained Past Poet Present Survive Tell Time Truth Voices Will Within Work

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: September 24th, 1944

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