Poet Quotes and aphorisms about tradition Eavan Boland ,, I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past ... Eavan Boland Lascelles Abercrombie Maya Angelou John Greenleaf Whittier Billy Collins Mark Strand Marilyn Nelson Austin Clarke ,, Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sens... Peter Davison