Top 17 Quotes About Irish Poets: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Irish Poets

#1. Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.

Tobias Hill

#2. Irish poets, learn your trade,
sing whatever is well made,
scorn the sort now growing up
all out of shape from toe to top.

W.B.Yeats

#3. It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

John Jay Hooker

#4. Irish improves a poet.

Sina Queyras

#5. Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.

John Calvin

#6. I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

Tom Ford

#7. [on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.

M. Edward McNally

#8. I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

Vanessa Paradis

#9. Both, in their own way, thinking, This is hell - the absolute loss borne from all those slivers of perfection that passed unnoticed, unrelished. In

Blake Crouch

#10. What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.

Frank Delaney

#11. He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

Cassandra Clare

#12. 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 places in our hearts.

Eilis Flynn