Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true. - Patrick Kavanagh

To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields - these are as much as a man can fully experience. - Patrick Kavanagh

Malice is only another name for mediocrity. - Patrick Kavanagh

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

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

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. - Patrick Kavanagh

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