The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion, the damned are damned because they enjoy being… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were not Christian. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
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