Alone Quote by Adrian Dunbar

There was a big thing in the Behan family of achieving and wanting to be something special. There was a big drive in the…

— Adrian Dunbar

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who…

— Anthony Hecht

I was living in Britain and then America, but it wasn't until I returned to live in Ireland in the late '70s that I…

— Ian McElhinney

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

— Claire Danes

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.'

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I hate Yeats! A lot of his poems are not very good, but some are obviously okay. But how has he become this sort…

— Sally Rooney

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as…

— Walter Hamilton

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to…

— Seamus Heaney

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country…

— Sharon Olds

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel…

— Stephen Dobyns