Culture Quote by Eavan Boland

In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in…

— David Whyte

To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still will always…

— Eavan Boland

There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different…

— Ted Kooser

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

— Campbell McGrath

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening…

— Paul Muldoon

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as…

— Eavan Boland

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

— M. Edward McNally

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

— James Broughton

Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all.…

— Robert Hass