Patrick Kavanagh (1904 - 1967 / County Monaghan)
Quotations
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''Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Canal Bank Walk (l. 1-2). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.
Pouring redemption for me,'' -
''For this soul needs to be honoured''
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Canal Bank Walk (l. 13). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. -
''O unworn world enrapture me, enrapture me in a web
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Canal Bank Walk (l. 9-10). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,'' -
''I have lived in important places, times
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Epic (l. 1-2). . . Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, The. Paul Muldoon, ed. (1986) Faber and Faber.
When great events were decided,'' -
''Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Epic (l. 12-14). . . Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, The. Paul Muldoon, ed. (1986) Faber and Faber.
He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.'' -
''On the stem
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Father Mat (l. 79-80). . . Anthology of Irish Literature, An. David H. Greene, ed. (1954) The Modern Library.
Of memory imaginations blossom.'' -
''"Take your choice, take your choice,"
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Father Mat (l. 133-136). . . Anthology of Irish Literature, An. David H. Greene, ed. (1954) The Modern Library.
Called the breeze through the bridge's eye.
"The domestic Virgin and Her Child
Or Venus with her ecstasy."'' -
''"God the Gay is not the Wise."''
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Father Mat (l. 132). . . Anthology of Irish Literature, An. David H. Greene, ed. (1954) The Modern Library. -
''The knife of penance fell so like a blade
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Father Mat (l. 10-11). . . Anthology of Irish Literature, An. David H. Greene, ed. (1954) The Modern Library.
Of grass that no one was afraid.'' -
''His curate passed on a bicycle
Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Father Mat (l. 30-32). . . Anthology of Irish Literature, An. David H. Greene, ed. (1954) The Modern Library.
He had the haughty intellectual look
Of the man who never reads in brook or book;''
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On Raglan Road
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay -
O I loved too much and by such and such is ha
