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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion. – James Joyce

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Think youre escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. – James Joyce

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. – Abbas Kiarostami

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. – Herbert Spencer

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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater

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