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“On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (2002). “No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh : an Anthology”, Columba Press (IE)
#Memories Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
#Stem Quotes
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“God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (2002). “No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh : an Anthology”, Columba Press (IE)
#Faith Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Rooms Quotes
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“The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code of mysteries And the wink-and-elbow language of delight. Half-past eight and there is not a spot Upon a mile of road, no shadow thrown That might turn out a man or woman, not A footfall tapping secrecies of stone. I have what every poet hates in spite Of all the solemn talk of contemplation. Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight Of being king and government and nation. A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (2000). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Classics
#Kings Quotes
#Hate Quotes
#Past Quotes
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“It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
#Reality Quotes
#Curiosity Quotes
#Enthusiasm Quotes
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“Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
#Men Quotes
#Expression Quotes
#Mediocrity Quotes
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“There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
#Art Quotes
#Policemen Quotes
#Works Of Art Quotes
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“A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
#Men Quotes
#Good Man Quotes
#Originality Quotes
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“Malice is only another name for mediocrity.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
#Names Quotes
#Mediocrity Quotes
#Malice Quotes
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“I dabbled in verse and it became my life”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : "Tarry Flynn".
#Verses Quotes
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“What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
#Newspapers Quotes
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“Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)”
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Patrick Kavanagh
#Next Quotes
#Kitties Quotes
#Volume Quotes
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“Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
#Rejection Quotes
#Should Quotes
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“My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature. I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
#Beautiful Quotes
#Years Quotes
#Land Quotes
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“A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.”
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Patrick Kavanagh
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
#Giving Quotes
#Listening Quotes
#Opinion Quotes
