Honor Quote by Eavan Boland

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

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

Honor is the greatest poet.

— Dante Alighieri

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

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

— M. Edward McNally

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

— Eavan Boland

“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

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

— William Butler Yeats

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially…

— Brian Dennehy

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness…

— Patrick Kavanagh

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

— Kenneth Branagh

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest…

— Gavin Friday