Author: 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

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

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

- Patrick Kavanagh

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.

- Patrick Kavanagh

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

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

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

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

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

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