19th century Quote by Eavan Boland

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

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

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but…

— Eavan Boland

I think it's best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because otherwise, I…

— Sally Rooney

“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

“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

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

— M. Edward McNally

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

— Maeve Binchy

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a…

— Kevin Starr

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something…

— Christopher Meloni

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