Awe Quote 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…

— Patrick Kavanagh

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

— 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…

— Patrick Kavanagh

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Patrick Kavanagh

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Patrick Kavanagh