Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets…

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest…

— Leonard Cohen

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while…

— Margaret Atwood

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

— Thornton Wilder

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special…

— Robert Hass

“August is dust here. Drought stuns the road, but juice gathers in the berries.”

— Robert Hass

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England,…

— Robert Hass

I love playing in Ireland and I've had great support here, like I get everywhere.

— Jimmy White

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

— James Connolly

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.”

— Jarod Kintz

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of…

— John Hume

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

— Gerry Adams

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

— Brian Eno