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“Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.”
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
“Human cities in particular, each one more or less according to its degree of perfection, surround the life of their inhabitants with poetry. They are images and reflections of the city and the world.”
― Waiting for God. Perennial Classics Series. ISBN: 0060959703 / 0-06-095970-3
― Waiting for God. Perennial Classics Series. ISBN: 0060959703 / 0-06-095970-3
“When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.”
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
“Time remains the enemy; history must be spatialized. How? By seeing it as a circle, a wheel perpetually turning, the same events recurring again and again.”
― Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader
― Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader
“it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.”
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