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The Lost Land: Poems QUOTES

1 " This is what language is:
a habitual grief. A turn of speech
for the everyday and ordinary abrasion
of losses such as this:
which hurts
just enough to be a scar
And heals just enough to be a nation. "

― Eavan Boland , The Lost Land: Poems