Yet in spite of all they sang in praise of their "Eliza's reign," we have evidence that poets may be born and sing in our day, in ...the presidency of James K. Polk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It w...orks beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colon...ialised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm a Sunday School teacher, and I've always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love... the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself--a very high and perfect standard. We all know the fallibility of man, and the contentions in society, as described by Reinhold Niebuhr and many others, don't permit us to achieve perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of ...their confederates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but thoug...h I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anyth...ing in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Dubliner" seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words as "Londoner" and "Parisian" b...oth of which have been used by writers as titles. From time to time I see in publishers' lists announcements of books on Irish subjects, so that I think people might be willing to pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed t...o me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »