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James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Poetry

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James Joyce suggests that poetry challenges artificial or forced forms, even when it seems imaginative or unreal. He also means that poetry resists ordinary reality by offering a different, often deeper, way of seeing the world.

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