Ireland Quote by Sina Queyras Download Open image ““Irish improves a poet.”” — Sina Queyras ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ireland Irish Poet Poetry Poets
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people” — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when… — Eddie Lenihan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“you want to be angry but you can’t stop looking and when you look you love and when you love the entire world unfolds… — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
“if I finally do catch you and put my mouth to yours you will taste that summer.” — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I love playing in Ireland and I've had great support here, like I get everywhere. — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here. — Sarah Bolger Copy Share Image
Home, for me, is with the people who I really love - whether that's in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm a massive Greggs fan! I never actually knew about Greggs when I lived over in Ireland but the minute I came over everyone… — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
