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On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.
— Patrick Kavanagh
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
— Patrick Kavanagh
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
— Patrick Kavanagh
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
— Seamus Heaney
Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from suchA local row. Gods make their own importance. — Patrick Kavanagh
We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own ...
— Patrick Kavanagh
Death was in the atmosphere. Only the yellow weeds in the meadow were excited by living.
— Patrick Kavanagh
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
— Patrick Kavanagh
The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.
— Patrick Kavanagh
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
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
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
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
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
— Patrick Kavanagh
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
God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Life was too heavy on her feet in that place to leap dramatically when something apparently exciting happened.
— Patrick Kavanagh
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
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
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
Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.
— John O'Donohue
Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...
— Patrick Kavanagh
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
— Patrick Kavanagh
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life
— Patrick Kavanagh
