"Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published."

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Patrick Kavanagh

#Rejection Quotes #Should Quotes

“One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.”
“My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.”
“We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.”
“The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.”
“One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.”
“What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.”
“I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way.”
“When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.”

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