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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

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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

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

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

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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: October 21st, 1904

Died: November 30th, 1967

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