The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. Patrick Kavanagh More Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh More Quotes From Patrick Kavanagh On the stem of memory imaginations blossom. Patrick Kavanagh imaginationmindmemories We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own. Patrick Kavanagh grieflonelinessspecial The bicycles go by in twos and threes - Patrick Kavanagh hatekingspast There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman. Patrick Kavanagh policemenunderstoodart God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts. Patrick Kavanagh faithheartrooms My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature. Patrick Kavanagh lightislandsbeautiful It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned. Patrick Kavanagh miserableenjoyopinion A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. Patrick Kavanagh opinionlisteninggiving Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published. Patrick Kavanagh invitedrejectionshould A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. Patrick Kavanagh originalitygood-manmen I dabbled in verse and it became my life Patrick Kavanagh verses It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked. Patrick Kavanagh curiosityenthusiasmreality Malice is only another name for mediocrity. Patrick Kavanagh malicemediocritynames What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true. Patrick Kavanagh newspapers Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb. Patrick Kavanagh sticksexpressionmen Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964) Patrick Kavanagh kittiesnextvolume I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic. Patrick Kavanagh streetcitysimplelife Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static. Patrick Kavanagh womenhappinessmenlife It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all. Patrick Kavanagh honesty-isposehonestysaid Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. Patrick Kavanagh womenalcoholimaginationsong
