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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More quotes by James Joyce
- Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
- I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
- Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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