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James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • Enya Almanzahas quoted3 years ago
    The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.
  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    hither and thither.

    So much higher and thither

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    the arrival of the first arts' class.

    Stop reading

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    Byron, of course, answered Stephen.

    More references to Byron

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    He knew it was right to begin so for he had seen similar titles in the collected poems of Lord Byron.

    Joyce seems to look up to Lord Byron much like Little Chandler

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    —and to amend my life—

    Stop reading here

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    had silvery whistles and their keys made a quick music: click, click: click, click.

    More art in the every day

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

    More awareness. Sound and language

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    He sat in a corner of the playroom pretending to watch a game of dominoes and once or twice he was able to hear for an instant the little song of the gas.

    Aware of sound. Art is everywhere

  • Kendall Elmerhas quoted3 months ago
    When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell

    He is very aware of sensory feelings

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