Poet Quotes and aphorisms about century Eavan Boland Eavan Boland ,, The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. Aft... Eavan Boland Maya Angelou ,, The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female... Carol Ann Duffy John Boyle O'Reilly David Antin Lawrence Ferlinghetti James Fenton ,, Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twenti... Tony Harrison