Try not to despise yourself too much—it’s only a conceit.
Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
Charlie Parker...always filled me with a kind of despair, because he played the way I would have liked to write, and this wasn’t possible for me or anyone else. He made poetry seem word-bound.
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| Birth: | 21st October, 1904 |
| Death: | 30th November, 1967 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
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Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
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