Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
1904–1967 Ireland
Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist.
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I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.
In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people.
Tarry Flynn (1948)
'Begod there's a powerful piece of turnips'
Tarry Flynn (1948)
With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law (Canon Law fascinated him, though what he knew of the subject was utter nonsense) to them on the slightest provocation. Women cannot understand honesty in a man.
Tarry Flynn (1948)
I do not know what age I am,
I am no mortal age;
I know nothing of women,
Nothing of cities,
I cannot die
Unless I walk outside these whitethorn hedges.
The headlands and the hedges were so fresh and wonderful, so gay with the dawn of the world. Tarry never tired looking at these ordinary things as he tired of the Mass and of religion. In a dim way he felt that he was not a Christian. In the god of Poetry he found a God more important to him than Christ. His god had never accepted Christ.
Tarry Flynn (1948)
'I always say to these here, marry the first man that asks you. There's only three classes of men a woman should never marry - a delicate man, a drunken man, and a lazy man. I'm not so sure that the lazy man isn't the worst.'
Tarry Flynn (1948)
O commemorate me where there is water,
Canal water, preferably, so stilly
Greeny at the heart of summer. Brother
Commemorate me thus beautifully
Where by a lock niagarously roars
The falls for those who sit in the tremendous silence
Of mid-July.
I inclined
To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin
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.