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Eavan Boland on the Seditious Nature of Poetry QUOTES FOR WRITERS

Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.

Eavan Boland
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3 comments on “Eavan Boland on the Seditious Nature of Poetry QUOTES FOR WRITERS”

  1. beth
    February 19, 2023
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    this is so true

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  2. Gail Tucker
    February 20, 2023
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    A comforting thought.

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  3. bridget whelan
    February 21, 2023
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    I guess for all of us poetry is also our first introduction to the power of words – from nursery rhymes to pre-reader books that had rhythm even if they didn’t have rhyme. I never mastered it myself, although I love reading it.

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