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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
— Patrick Kavanagh
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Patrick Kavanagh
writer, poet, novelist
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1904 – 1967
Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
All Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh
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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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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
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
— Patrick Kavanagh
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
— Patrick Kavanagh
“
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
— Patrick Kavanagh
“
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