John Moriarty

“When culture is in woeful crisis, the insights rarely come from parliament, senate, or committee, they tend to come from a hut at the edge of the village. Let’s go there. There is tremendous, unexpected hope waiting.”
― John Moriarty, A Hut at the Edge of the Village

“The songs I sang had big, wide, open longings in them and that is why I sang them. I wanted the horizons of longings in those songs to lie down with the horizon of our world and make it less lonely. Singing those songs in the way I sang them, I was trying to rescue a people up into their longings. I was trying to tell them that there was something more than bog sadness to the world, I was trying to tell them there is something more to the world than the blowing wind and the wet rain. And I sang because I wanted to be heard. Passing every house, I wanted the people who were getting up in it or making tea in it to recognize me as me.”
― John Moriarty, A Hut at the Edge of the Village