Eavan Boland Quotes
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
Quotes to Explore
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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Africa has no future.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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I don't fear anything now.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
