Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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The voice tells them home is warm.James Joyce
Love is unhappy when love is away!
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Love is past
That had his sweet hours many a one;
Welcome to us now at the last
The ways that we shall go upon.
James Joyce
My love is in a light attire
Among the apple-trees,
Where the gay winds do most desire
To run in companies.
James Joyce
According to his brother Stanislaus . . . 'Unhappiness was like a vice.' He was cold and distant except with those closest to him, but when, on his mother's death, he discovered a bundle of letters that his father had written to her before they were married, he spent the whole afternoon reading them 'with as little compunction as a doctor or a lawyer . . . puts questions.' When he had finished, Stanislaus asked him 'Well' 'Nothing,' James Joyce answered curtly and rather contemptuously. Nothing, thought Stanislaus, for the young poet with a mission, but clearly something for the woman who had kept them all those years of neglect and poverty.
James Joyce
Love came to us in time gone by
When one at twilight shyly played
And one in fear was standing nigh -- -
For Love at first is all afraid.
James Joyce
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