Country Quote by Eavan Boland

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time.…

— Eavan Boland

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 have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

— Eavan Boland

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

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

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

I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and…

— Eavan Boland

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

— Anonymous

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

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

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from…

— Edward Hirsch

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if…

— Anonymous