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The Birmingham News, Alabama, November 30, 1948
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The Birmingham News, Alabama, November 30, 1948
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
What makes a rivers so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
From: What is it to be Irish? - a poem by Hal Boyle
What is it to be Irish? How can you put the wonder of it into words? ...
It is to have the gift of tongues, to know the language of all living things. Does an Irishman pause and turn an ear to a tree? It is because on this day he wants to hear what one sleepy bud says to another as it opens its pale green hands to the warm sun of spring.
... it is music...the deep, deep music of living, the low, sad rhythms of eternity... All the world is in tune, a tune that only he can hear.
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It is to live the whole history of his race between a dawn and a dawn - the long wrongs, the bird-swift joys, the endless hurt of his ancestors since the morning of time in a forgotten forest...
It's only the realization that he is descended from kings...that he is a king himself, an empire on two feet striding in power, a strolling continent of awe.
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on Saint Patrick's Day, to be Irish is to know more glory, adventure, magic, victory, exultation, gratitude and gladness than any other man can experience in a lifetime.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt--it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.” - Hal Boyle
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Columnist Hal Boyle