James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joycewas an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1882
CityRathgar, Ireland
CountryIreland
love life ocean
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.
brother beer son
Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.
imagination bread body
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
dream heart vision
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
baby boys once-upon-a-time
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
drinking availability masturbation
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
flower obscurity unseen
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
horse bulls horns
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
people nations
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
long pages gone
When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…
imagination loyal causes
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
time flames space
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
art joy feelings
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
country men soul
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.