Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

Patrick Kavanagh
Irish Poet
Born: Oct 21, 1904
Died: Nov 30, 1967
Always Dead Life Man Nothing Simple
Related authors: Eavan Boland John Millington Synge Oliver Goldsmith Seamus Heaney Thomas Moore William Allingham William Butler Yeats
It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all. Patrick Kavanagh
Honesty Honesty Is Absolute Most Said Dishonest Might Pose
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie. Patrick Kavanagh
Life Lie Remember Life Is A Young Way Out Writers Cliche Artistic Young Writers Should Keep Pubs
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. Patrick Kavanagh
Soul Simple Manners Bad Folk Intrude Bad Manners Private Familiarity
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
Happiness Life Women Natural Progress Men Men And Women Spring Circles Static Out Rural Rises General Countryside Principle None Rock Spreads Irregular Which Natural Life Communities Naturally Base Compared Lived
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. Patrick Kavanagh
Women Song Enemy Wine Imagination Alcohol Worst Go
Malice is only another name for mediocrity. Patrick Kavanagh
Mediocrity Only Name Another Malice
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left. Patrick Kavanagh
Man Cancer Nothing Out Eats Shell Till Left Publicity
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
Life Man Strange Something He Like Does How His Happens Realise Thing
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 Business Fool Action Libel Destroyed Head Over Lot Green Did Momentum Damage
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
Life People Poet Dances Detached Would About Could Take Never Football He Part Remote Talk Him Might Belong
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 Writing Dangerous Country Writer Instinctively Ireland Places Held Certain Whom Awe
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. Patrick Kavanagh
Life Water Spring Cities Rather Main River Like Artificially Novel

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