Quotes by James Joyce
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.