Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
From James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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