48 Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

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.

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.