Brendan Kennelly quotes
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“All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice”
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“If you want to serve the age, betray it.”
-- Brendan KennellySource : "The Book of Judas". Book by Brendan Kennelly, 1991.
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“Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.”
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“A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.”
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“Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.”
-- Brendan Kennelly
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Source : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview, collider.com. Ocotber 6, 2010.
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“To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
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