Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James JoyceWhen a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
James JoyceLord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
James JoyceMots clés humor wake finnegans hoyce
But he could no longer disbelieve in the reality of love, since God Himself had loved his individual soul with divine love from all eternity. Gradually, as his soul was enriched with spiritual knowledge, he saw the whole world forming one vast symmetrical expression of God's power and love. Life became a divine gift for every moment and sensation of which, were it even the sight of a single leaf hanging on the twig of a tree, his soul should praise and thank the Giver. The world for all its solid substance and complexity no longer existed for his soul save as a theorem of divine power and love and universality.
James JoyceHis eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
James JoyceIt pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric? They had big voices and big boots and they studied trigonometry.
James JoyceAnd then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James JoyceMots clés from-ulysses
Love me. Love my umbrella.
James JoyceUnsheathe your dagger definitions.
James JoyceThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.
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