Poetry, even when apparently most fantas... by James Joyce | We Heart Quotes

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

- James Joyce

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Words

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

- James Joyce

Love loves to love love.

- James Joyce

Immortality Will

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

- James Joyce

Genius Man

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

- James Joyce

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

- James Joyce

Shut your eyes and see.

- James Joyce

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