If you want to serve the age, betray it.

- Brendan Kennelly

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

- Brendan Kennelly

Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we for…

- Brendan Kennelly

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice

- Brendan Kennelly

Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability t…

- Brendan Kennelly

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

- Brendan Kennelly