Poet Quotes and aphorisms about national Eavan Boland ,, I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past ... Eavan Boland ,, I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows ... Ian Hamilton Finlay Wendell Berry Maya Angelou Langston Hughes ,, My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more th... William Butler Yeats John Fuller Tom Paulin Gerard Malanga