Patrick Kavanagh

Quotes

• “I do not know what age I am,I am no mortal age;I know nothing of women,Nothing of cities,I cannot dieUnless I walk outside these whitethorn hedges.”
• “Mullahinsa, Drummeril, Black Shanco-Wherever I turn I seeIn the stony grey soil of MonaghanDead loves that were born for me.”
• “I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.”
• “I inclinedTo lose my faith in Ballyrush and GortinTill Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from suchA local row. Gods make their own importance.”
• “O commemorate me where there is water, Canal water, preferably, so stillyGreeny at the heart of summer. BrotherCommemorate me thus beautifullyWhere by a lock niagarously roarsThe falls for those who sit in the tremendous silenceOf mid-July.”

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