Derek Mahon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime
-- Derek Mahon

#Heart #Sublime #Ridiculous
The little things that you saw with a childâ€™s eye and that will never go away. Thatâ€™s what consciousness is all about.
-- Derek Mahon

#Children #Eye #Going Away
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.
-- Derek Mahon

#Community #Solitude #Weirdness

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.

Derek Mahon famous quotes

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