Denis Devlin

Denis Devlin (April 15, 1908 - August 21, 1959) was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s. He was also a career diplomat.

Read more about Denis Devlin:  Early Life and Studies, Diplomatic Career and Later Writings

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    There is no mystery in the luminous lines
    Of that high, animal face
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    Blesses without obliging
    Loves without condescension;
    Denis Devlin (1908–1959)

    I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn’t talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
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