"Nothing whatever is by love debarred"
- 'The Hospital' by Patrick Kavanagh
Maybe surprisingly, Kavanagh wrote this poem about "the functional ward of a chest hospital." Kavanagh describes its plainness, ugliness, even - "an art lover's woe" but it was here that Kavanagh was treated for lung cancer and saved, and thus, despite his preconceptions he "fell in love" with the hospital. In my opinon, that's Kavanagh's greatest attribute - his ability to see beauty where others cannot.
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