Patrick Kavanagh

"The ordinary things that happen to ordinary people are the most important."

"There is infinite hope in an honest look at the particular."

"To write is to tell the truth about yourself."

"The parochial is the universal."

"Beauty is where we find it, not where we expect it."

"A man's real life is the life he imagines for himself."

"The secrets of life are hidden in small places."

"Kindness is the only language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"We should praise the mutability of things since they alone are capable of change."

"The most important thing is to remain faithful to your own sensibilities."

"A day without work is a day without meaning."

"The heart knows reasons that reason knows nothing of."

"To live intensely is to truly live."

"The deepest poverty is not material but spiritual."

"Art begins where certainty ends."

"We must learn to cherish the humble and ordinary."

"A man's memory is his own story."

"The greatest gift is the gift of presence."

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The world is full of unwritten stories waiting to be discovered."

"Patience is not the absence of action but the wisdom of right timing."

"A true friend sees you in darkness and walks with you."

"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."

"To create is to participate in the divine."

"The past is a foreign country, but we can learn its language."

"Freedom begins where fear ends."

"A man who does not doubt is a man who does not think."

"The greatest adventure is the adventure within."

"To love is to understand."

"The truth is often found in silence."