Padraic Colum Quotes

• It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

  Padraic Colum

  Children, Views, Imagination

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• To Meath of the pastures,
  From wet hills by the sea,
  Through Leitrim and Longford,
  Go my cattle and me.

  Padraic Colum

  Past, Sea, Voyages

  Padraic Colum (1989). “Selected Poems of Padraic Colum”, p.24, Syracuse University Press

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• O farmer, strong farmer!
  You can spend at the fair,
  But your face you must turn
  To your crops and your care

  Padraic Colum

  Strong, Care, Faces

  Padraic Colum (1989). “Selected Poems of Padraic Colum”, p.24, Syracuse University Press

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• My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.

  Padraic Colum

  Brother, Long, Young Love

  1907 Wild Earth,'She Moved through the Fair'.

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• O woman shapely as a swan.

  Padraic Colum

  Women, Swans

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