Famous quotes containing the word bowen:
“Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today.”
—E.E. Bowen (18361901)
“The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited hima subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be capturedcaptured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“... my last work is no sooner on the stands than letters come, suggesting a subject. The grandmothers of strangers are crying from the grave, it seems, for literary recognition; it is bewildering, the number of salty grandfathers, aunts and uncles that languish unappreciated.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (18971973)