Poetry Quote by James Joyce

“What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It…

— James Joyce

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“He lay on his back, watching the great river of stars wash across the sky. Worlds above, worlds below. It made him feel very…

— James R. Sanford

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life…

— Joe Abercrombie

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”

— Nick Taylor