"Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one personâ€™s life."

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Source : Eavan Boland (2012). “A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet”, p.6, Carcanet

Eavan Boland

#Shadow Quotes #Language Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“I have a suicide impulse.”
“We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.23, Baker Books
“Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.”
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”

Source : Business Week, June 18, 1990.
“Unzip my body, take my heart out”
“Until you've completed your relationship with your parents, all your relationships will be about your parents.”
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

Source : Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"
“Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.”

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