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
mind battle inspired
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
soul lovers sin
Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.
life spiritual mistake
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
winter air sky
When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.
shining sun stills
You can still die when the sun is shining.
All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
truth history trying
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
absence form highest
Absence, the highest form of presence.
art spring doe
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
eye zeus insight
Shut your eyes and see.
encouraging mistake discovery
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
eye heart past
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
heart mad yes
And his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
came fifth lost
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.