It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
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To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields - these are as much as a man can fully experience.Patrick Kavanagh
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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Out of that childhood country what fools climb
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
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You told me the plough was immortal!
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