Quote

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

James Joyce

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
Author
Father
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Teacher
Writer
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
Writer
Imagination
Transmuting
Experience
Radiant
Body
Priest
Life
Priests
Bread
Daily
Eternal

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
Let my country die for me.
James Joyce
Image
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
James Joyce
Image
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
James Joyce
Image
What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
James Joyce
Image
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
James Joyce
Image
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
James Joyce
Image
A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.
James Joyce
Image
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
James Joyce
Image
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
James Joyce
Image
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.
James Joyce
Image
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
James Joyce
Image
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.
James Joyce
Image
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
Image
I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses
James Joyce
Image
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
James Joyce
Image
Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
James Joyce
Image
All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
James Joyce
Image
The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.
James Joyce
Image
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
James Joyce
Image
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
James Joyce