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
I am who I am because of who I was.
soil warm
Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.
came fifth lost
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
blood capture cells designed entire organs viruses
It's designed to capture viruses from your entire blood system. It's designed to capture viruses before cells and organs can be infected.
heart mad yes
And his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
fire soul hell
Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
art glasses servant
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
dublin would-be passing
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.
signatures through-my-eyes all-things
Signatures of all things I am here to read.
inspiration pun
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial
fall light air
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.
eye hands blue
Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?
friendship love-is men
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.
love romantic heart
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.