Day to day Quote by Paul Muldoon

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

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

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

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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

— M. Edward McNally

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

— Anonymous

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

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

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially, for poetry…

— W.B. Yeats

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 always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— John Ashbery