48 Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature. I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own...

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.