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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.

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

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

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

O woman shapely as a swan.

Padraic Colum
Women, Swans

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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