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Quote by James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt ag

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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. – James Joyce

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. – James Joyce

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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I dont care thats what poetry is supposed to do. – Diane Wakoski

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson

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[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes,” Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939

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The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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