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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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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. – James Joyce

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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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I think poetry is best read to oneself. – Rickie Lee Jones

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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