Top 7 Kay Boyle Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.”

— Kay Boyle

2. “Words are shallow troughs for the deep water of the mind and it is only the fierce, the living, the simple, the clear, the angry mind which can overflow the troughs and go out over the mud, and over the grass, bearing the light of the sun on it like an angry shield.”

— Kay Boyle

3. “You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory’s ruins.”

— Kay Boyle

4. “Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it’s always there.”

— Kay Boyle

5. “I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.”

— Kay Boyle

6. “The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.”

— Kay Boyle

7. “There is no way for even the most honest among us to look into memory’s dreamy, evasive eyes and know she can be persuaded not to lie, not to betray.”

— Kay Boyle

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