Folklore Quote by W.B. Yeats

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

“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing…

— Czesław Miłosz

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening…

— Paul Muldoon

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

— M. Edward McNally

“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

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

“An Introduction to Poetry Readings" Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics Welcome to a night of wine and…

— Nasty Nigel Lawrence

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

“this then will be my destiny: scrabbling for pennies in dark tiny halls reading poems I have long since become tired of. and I…

— Charles Bukowski

“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who…

— Jim Tully