James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joycewas an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1882
CityRathgar, Ireland
CountryIreland
desire arms world
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
imagination loyal causes
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
example free-thought said
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
hands gloves firsts
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
clouds treasure phrases
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
excited
Too excited to be genuinely happy
sorrow
Every bond is a bond to sorrow.
asks ifs
if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.
littles understood
Have read little and understood less.
years soul felt
For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
beautiful thinking corpses
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
night long care
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
interpretation
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
romantic jesus youth
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.