Irish - Poet | October 21, 1904 - November 30, 1967
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
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It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
GoodTruthMenManGood MenAlways
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.
LifeFootballPeopleTalkNeverHim
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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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.
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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.
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