Poetry Quote by Brittany Cavallaro

“This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.”

— Galway Kinnell

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

“Angus was courting me with lines that stabbed deep in lonely, barren places. Like an unfair conqueror, he was delivering his words with an…

— Cheryl R Cowtan

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

“Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“A local butcher offered me money to put in my next book a portrayal of a customer he didn't like that would make him…

— John McGahern

“But finally we found the place—an Irish pub, as seedy as the roughest ones on the backstreets of Galway.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris