Famous quotes containing the words ireland, song and/or contest:
“There is no topic ... more soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves,
The full round moon and the star-laden sky,
And the loud song of the ever-singing leaves,
Had hid away earth’s old and weary cry.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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