Top 82 Kavanagh Quotes

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

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #3616
#2. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #33288
#3. How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #48003
#4. He was in his secret room in the heart now. Having entered he could be bold. A man hasn't to be on his best behavior in Heaven; he can kick the furniture around. He can stoop down and picks up lumps of mortality without being born again to die.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #57544
#5. In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #74742
#6. I could've gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered.
My brother died because someone was jealous.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #92358
#7. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #97853
#8. Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #99750
#9. 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.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #115647
#10. I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #122844
#11. God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #164071
#12. Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #169449
#13. It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in

Tom Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #200805
#14. You get more results with honey than with... being an arsehole.

Emma Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #203047
#15. I recognized Meg's swirly handwriting and crooked my index finger into the side of the envelope to rip it open. There was no letter. Just a picture.
A picture of Meg holding a picture of me.
The word HOME echoed through my body like a rifle shot.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #243096
#16. A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #278324
#17. The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #296165
#18. The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #322378
#19. We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own ...

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #335289
#20. Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.

P. J. Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #363423
#21. In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #370894
#22. Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn't change who we were or what had happened.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #383182
#23. Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, "Promise?"
Well, that genie's out of the bottle and there's no stuffing her back in.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #387685
#24. I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #435972
#25. Oh- and Anastasia, I'm glad Miss Kavanagh couldn't do the interview.

E.L. James

Kavanagh Quotes #463671
#26. Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #505785
#27. Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #519912
#28. Most kids grow sullen and angry when they're working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #524867
#29. I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let him.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #591904
#30. Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #618662
#31. There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #642351
#32. Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #757581
#33. The world of Katherine Kavanagh is very clear, very black and white. Not the intangible, mysterious, vague hues of gray that color my world. Welcome to my world.

E.L. James

Kavanagh Quotes #785923
#34. Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #813410
#35. Grayson noticed me next to the lockers. He pointed at me then held his arms out magnanimously. "You're welcome, new girl," he said. "I just saved you from having to find a nice way to say no to the leg dragger.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #852990
#36. 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

Kavanagh Quotes #853731
#37. On the best nights, he'd appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn't had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me, and he looked older than us and stronger than us.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #867770
#38. And it's nagging at you, but you can't quite put your finger on it? It's like that, all the time. Just this feeling of wrongness. Like the world doesn't make sense any more without him in it.' A

Emma Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #886741
#39. On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #898002
#40. Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point ... The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #962876
#41. Without the baggy clothes or oven mitts, she looked less like a cute young housewife and more like something that had crawled out of Hell.

S.M. Reine

Kavanagh Quotes #973464
#42. Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.

John O'Donohue

Kavanagh Quotes #974723
#43. He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #990514
#44. In my mind, I saw a string stretching from Henry's heart at Quiet Waters to my heart. It was taut and it vibrated with Henry's worries and fears and I felt them all.
Deeply. I felt them all.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1014958
#45. A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1015122
#46. Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1066586
#47. There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1070808
#48. Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1112050
#49. It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we're deprived of something meaningful.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1125746
#50. 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.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1141346
#51. Hmmm. What you're saying is that you've never been kissed? He picked at a string on the blanket under us.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1165687
#52. This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.

Meryl S. Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1177893
#53. 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.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1194007
#54. I learned during the three weeks after my surgery that when you are in rehab, willpower and determination are key.

Peter Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1205269
#55. Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1247103
#56. I'd known cruelty in a school - cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene - crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak - happened to be my personal trigger.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1276811
#57. Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1313890
#58. The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1346596
#59. Elise didn't hesitate to punch her hand into a man's chest to pulverize a demon eyeball, but a batch of burned cookies could bring her to her knees.

S.M. Reine

Kavanagh Quotes #1355888
#60. Quit worrying so much about the boards and nails of your life. Focus on the stuff that lasts. He glanced through the window toward the glowing light of the kitchen where Meg and my mom were laughing about something.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1361720
#61. I love words! I believe in their power to soothe, to comfort, to heal. I believe in their ability to inspire, to capture the unthinkable, to help us cope with the unimaginable.

Emma Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1379026
#62. 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

Kavanagh Quotes #1385044
#63. Hearing my brother's words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss - wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1420137
#64. I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

Seamus Heaney

Kavanagh Quotes #1425677
#65. 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.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1463468
#66. It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1489924
#67. The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.

P. J. Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1530200
#68. He'd had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn't look like anyone I'd ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western - Rock Hudson in Giant - all dark intensity.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1577003
#69. I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1591643
#70. 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

Kavanagh Quotes #1603730
#71. it is raining blessings, and we all stand under our large umbrellas. come out and let yourself be rained upon!

Pascale Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1616893
#72. Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don't even know we're making, they're so dull or routine or automatic. Some are beyond explanation - like my mom choosing Wyatt's memory over Dad and me.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1618730
#73. I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you're alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1651544
#74. Death was in the atmosphere. Only the yellow weeds in the meadow were excited by living.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1682556
#75. Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1700089
#76. What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1732607
#77. Work is what you have to do to pay rent. Life is what happens when your shift is over.

Marianne Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1818191
#78. Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.
So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1819559
#79. I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1821045
#80. Life was too heavy on her feet in that place to leap dramatically when something apparently exciting happened.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh Quotes #1821141
#81. 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

Kavanagh Quotes #1827276
#82. But Quinn held the fuzzy handcuffs in his hands, looking them over closely, and he smiled. Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

Laura Anderson Kurk

Kavanagh Quotes #1861917

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