Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
We have tested and tasted too much, lover-Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.

-Patrick Kavanagh
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It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion, the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

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My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don’t matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.

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Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life

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Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...

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I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided, who ownedThat half a rood of rock, a no-man's landSurrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.I heard the Duffys shouting "Damn your soul!"And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seenStep the plo . . . Read more

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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.

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He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson.I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him a writer who tried to bully his way to prophecy. Of Emerson at the time I had no opinions to offer. I found him out later to be a sugary humbug. His transcendent . . . Read more

-Patrick Kavanagh