Padraic Colum Quotes & Sayings

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

O woman shapely as a swan. — Padraic Colum

I would change the knowledge I have into wisdom, so that the things that are to happen will be changed into the best that may be. — Padraic Colum

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

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

He was Loki, a being who only half belonged to the Gods; his father was the Wind Giant. — Padraic Colum

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