Quote of the Day (Poet Patrick Kavanagh, on Remembering ‘All That Has Loved You or Been Kind’)

“Count then your blessings, hold in mind

All that has loved you or been kind:

Those women on their mercy missions,

Rescue work with kiss or kitchens,

Perceiving through the comic veil

The poet’s spirit in travail.

Gather the bits of road that were

Not gravel to the traveller

But eternal lanes of joy

On which no man who walks can die.”—Irish poet and novelist Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), “Prelude,” in Irish Poems, edited by Matthew McGuire (2011)