Bowen

Famous quotes containing the word bowen:

“Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“Religion engaged her feelings in the hard grapple she knew as love.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“Forty years on, growing older and older,
Shorter in wind, as in memory long,
Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder
What will it help you that once you were strong?”
—E.E. Bowen (1836–1901)