E. Michael Murphy

“If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Cosmopolitan Greetings

“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man