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

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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits Ive managed to grow out of. – Tom Holt

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesnt. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. – Jack Prelutsky

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didnt think so. – Norman MacCaig

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