Growing Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

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

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

— M. Edward McNally

“Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes...…

— Cedric Kelly

“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

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

— Eavan Boland

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

“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

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes...…

— Anonymous

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

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

— Anonymous