It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all. Patrick Kavanagh Read Quote
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. Patrick Kavanagh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one’s private soul. Patrick Kavanagh Read Quote
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. Patrick Kavanagh Read Quote
Undoubtedly, there are a number of well-developed, mainly female, stars helping Miss Taylor to hold the film industry together: Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, etc. But such an insistence on cheesecake smells of bankruptcy. Patrick Kavanagh Read Quote
Publicity’s a cancer. It eats out a man – till there’s nothing but a shell left. Patrick Kavanagh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
