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> [“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him a writer who tried to bully his way to prophecy. Of Emerson at the time I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/he-read-me-whitman-of-whom-he-was-very-fond-and-also-emerson-i-didn-t/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

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## More by Patrick Kavanagh

> [My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/my-chin-is-weak-i-find-it-hard-to-make-decisions-for-years-i-had-been/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/the-keynote-of-simple-folk-is-bad-manners-familiarity-they-intrude-on/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/yeats-protected-to-some-extent-by-the-nationalistic-movement-wrote/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/i-want-to-reveal-in-a-simple-way-the-usual-and-unusual-life-of-the/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/natural-life-lived-naturally-as-it-is-lived-in-the-countryside-has/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/how-strange-a-thing-like-that-happens-to-a-man-he-dabbles-in/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/actors-are-loved-because-they-are-unoriginal-actors-stick-to-their/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [Malice is only another name for mediocrity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/malice-is-only-another-name-for-mediocrity/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [ Publication there \[in Nimbus\] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/publication-there-in-nimbus-was-to-prove-a-turning-point-the/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [“It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion, the damned are damned because they enjoy being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/it-often-occurs-to-me-that-we-love-most-what-makes-us-miserable-in-my/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were not Christian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/ancient-ireland-sweeping-in-again-with-all-its-unbaptized-beauty-the/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/poetry-is-not-irish-or-any-other-nationality-and-when-writers-such-as/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/in-the-country-places-of-ireland-writing-is-held-in-certain-awe-a/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/in-the-dear-dead-days-beyond-recall-when-i-was-in-my-prime-as-a-film/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

> [Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/young-writers-should-keep-out-of-pubs-and-remember-that-the-cliche/)

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