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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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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 am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. – James Joyce

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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we cant define it. – Robert Morgan

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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