End Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish…

— Rodney Crowell

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

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

— Eavan Boland

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

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

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

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

— M. Edward McNally

“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

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no…

— Shana Alexander

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 don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical…

— Stephen Lang

“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some level, bites…

— Rebecca Solnit