Patrick Kavanagh

"Ah, if you could only see the beauty of it all"

"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to perceive"

"The important thing is not to think much but to love much"

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans"

"Innocence is a kind of insanity"

"The parish is a universe of poetry"

"A man might spend a lifetime in the pursuit of happiness"

"I have a rendezvous with life"

"The greatest poverty is spiritual poverty"

"To God and to the poet nothing is small"

"The real tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives"

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it is the stepping stone to success"

"I thank the powers that have made me sad"

"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most dislike"

"The only way out of the labyrinth is through understanding"

"Art is the effort of man to express not his relation to nature but his relation to God"

"A poet's job is to make words sing"

"Love is the bridge between two souls"

"Time is the greatest teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students"

"Truth needs no ornament"

"The soul of man is restless until it rests in God"

"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes"

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the right to choose your constraints"

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong in the broken places"

"Hope is the last thing that dies in man"

"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of fear"

"Change is the only constant in life"

"Knowledge is not power; the application of knowledge is power"

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"