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Patrick Kavanagh quotes: On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from suchA local row. Gods make their own importance.

Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own ...

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own ...

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Death was in the atmosphere. Only the yellow weeds in the meadow were excited by living.

Death was in the atmosphere. Only the yellow weeds in the meadow were excited by living.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.

The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: I dabbled in verse and it became my life

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Life was too heavy on her feet in that place to leap dramatically when something apparently exciting happened.

Life was too heavy on her feet in that place to leap dramatically when something apparently exciting happened.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...

Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life

Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life

Patrick Kavanagh quotes: Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.