What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true. Patrick Kavanagh More Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh More Quotes From Patrick Kavanagh Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left. Patrick Kavanagh nothing man left cancer In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. Patrick Kavanagh judge job poetry love Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything. Patrick Kavanagh know prove speak facts 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 something man strange life There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things. Patrick Kavanagh dead nothing little-things important Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum. Patrick Kavanagh me fool green business A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong. Patrick Kavanagh never football life people The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard. Patrick Kavanagh dead being language food Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie. Patrick Kavanagh life-is-a lie remember life The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. Patrick Kavanagh bad soul simple manners In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled. Patrick Kavanagh man dangerous writing country Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. Patrick Kavanagh end late colour poetry Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply. Patrick Kavanagh some work life world 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 man who has put five shillings on a horse. Patrick Kavanagh you man quality mind Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. Patrick Kavanagh river spring water life In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art. Patrick Kavanagh beyond dead always art The second-grade films - where are they? No more are they made, and yet they were by far the best films for holding hands at, and wasn't this always the main purpose of the cinema? Patrick Kavanagh best cinema purpose hands
