Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 21, 1904 - November 30, 1967

Topics

LifeFootballPeopleTalkNeverHim

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Joan Collins

Getting OlderYourselfMindHelpYou

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

John Burroughs

FamilyFlowerRelationshipTraining

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

Melissa Rosenberg

BeginningTiredEndingStoryThink

Johnny Cash was a good man. He tried to live up to his faith. It was just difficult.

Robert Hilburn

GoodLiveFaithManGood ManUp

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

MarriageSunsetHappyHappy Marriage

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.

Roger Spottiswoode

PeopleLawDieYouBadNow

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Mason Cooley

MomentCompassionRise AboveRiseUs

The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.

Mike O'Malley

LifeMyselfPeopleSelfishMy Life

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

HappinessPainBoredomHumanEnemies

To heal from the inside out is the key.

Wynonna Judd

KeyInsideOutHeal

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

Phil Bredesen

FeetThinkWashingtonGroundWhose

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.

Sharon Salzberg

LifeFearTruthExperienceSuffering

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