There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
Patrick KavanaghPublication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning pointโฆ The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)
Patrick KavanaghMacmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
Patrick KavanaghActors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
Patrick Kavanagh