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From Faber and Faber
To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper.
Sevensinns in her singthings,
Plurabelle on her prose,
Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows.
—James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
—James Joyce
Topics: Poetry, Poets
He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
—James Joyce
Topics: Genius
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
—James Joyce
Topics: Mistakes
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
—James Joyce
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing, Writing
An Irishman needs three things: silence, cunnning, and exile.
—James Joyce
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce
Topics: Genius, Courage, Intelligence, Mistakes, Discovery
A man’s errors are his portal to discovery.
—James Joyce
While you have a thing it can be taken from you… but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
—James Joyce
Topics: Charity, Giving
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
—James Joyce
Topics: Artists, Art
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