John Hewitt (poet)

John Harold Hewitt (28 October 1907 – 22 June 1987) was an Ulster poet from Belfast.

Quotes

• We would be strangers in the Capitol;
  this is our country also, no-where else;
  and we shall not be outcast on the world.
  • "The Colony", in The Bell, vol. 18, no. 11 (1953), pp. 33–7

• I'm an Ulsterman, of planter stock. I was born in the island of Ireland, so secondarily I'm an Irishman. I was born in the British archipelago and English is my native tongue, so I am British. The British archipelago consists of offshore islands to the continent of Europe, so I'm European. This is my hierarchy of values and so far as I am concerned, anyone who omits one step in that sequence of values is falsifying the situation.
  • In The Irish Times (4 July 1974)