Poetry Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

8 Poetry quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

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Patrick Kavanagh often wrote about the countryside, and these eight poems distill that focus into compact, moving verses. The collection feels like a quiet stroll through familiar fields, each line resonating with authenticity.

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

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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…

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Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins…

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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…

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I dabbled in verse and it became my life

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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…

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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a…

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A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football…

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

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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and…

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

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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…

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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

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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…

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

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Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were not Christian.

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