Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
ATTRIBUTION:
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. lecture, February 15, 1902, University College, Dublin; repr. in Critical Writings, sct. 8, eds. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann (1959). “James Clarence Mangan,” (first published 1902).
