Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

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. ”

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not. ”

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life. ”

I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life. ”

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it? ”

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. ”

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child. ”

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. ”

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ”

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ”