#modernism

“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is Jellyorum and its one Idea is to be Useful!! Letter to his godson, Thomas Erle Faber”

“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "Dante" (1929), in Selected Essays (1932), p. 238”

“My general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo”

“... were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. "Journey of the Magi”

“There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. "Journey of the Magi”

“Journey of the Magi”

“A dangerous person to disagree with. On Samuel Johnson , in Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century”

“The Contemporary English Novelist”

“Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith. Letter to Richard Aldington”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. " Philip Massinger ", a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood”

“In Spanish, we have a tradition of open”

“From before I knew how to read, my parents had me memorize poems by Ruben Dario, the great Nicaraguan poet who founded the modernist movement that transformed the Spanish language and whose work I recited with pleasure to whoever was naïve enough to ask me to do so. The rhythm of Dario’s poems fascinated me. Often”

“Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Pity for Him Who One Day .”

“The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Fatalidad (Fatality) .”

“I am not on a bed of roses”

“Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.”

“Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal"”

“Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo, y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.”

“I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems) . I Seek a Form (1896).”

“Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul. Notes (1913) made by Joyce for his play Exiles”

“The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: England's Safety Valve in Case of War,”

“Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe”

“Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages,”

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end. Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0”

“Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence. "A Suave Philosophy," in Daily Express, Dublin (6 February 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, ISBN 0”

“My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? From the poem I Hear an Army”

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. Letter to Augusta Gregory (November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, ISBN 0”

“I want to achieve myself”

“James Clarence Mangan”

“Much of the music is a Merzbild , put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti”

“The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co”

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. Igor Stravinsky. "Subject: Music", New York Times Magazine , 9/27/64.”

“expressed in terms of”

“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. 1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.”

“My music is best understood by children and animals . Igor Stravinsky. The Observer, Oct 8, 1961.”

“music, blamed for deserting”

“As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul . Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe . The Musical Digest (1946) [1]”

“For I consider that music is, by its very nature , essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Expression has never been an inherent property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality . It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention”

“What I am after, above all, is expression. Sometimes it has been conceded that I have a certain technical ability but that, my ambition being limited, I am unable to proceed beyond a purely visual satisfaction such as can be procured from the mere sight of a picture. But the purpose of a painter must not be conceived as separate from his pictorial means, and these pictorial means must be the more complete (I do not mean complicated) the deeper is his thought. I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it. pp. 409”

“Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will condense the meaning of this body by seeking its essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first glance, but it must eventually emerge from the new image which will have a broader meaning, one more fully human. p. 48”

“The simplest means are those which best enable an artist to express himself. His means of expression must derive almost all of necessity from his temperament. p. 39”

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. p. 38”

“There is an impelling proportion of tones that may lead me to change the shape of a figure or to transform my composition. Until I have achieved this proportion in all the parts of a composition I strive towards it and keep on working. Then a moment comes when all the parts have found their definite relationships, and from then on it would be impossible for me to add a stroke to my picture without having to repaint it entirely. p. 38”

“I simply try to put down colours which render my sensation. p. 38”

“For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning. p. 37”

“Underlying this succession of moments which constitutes the superficial existence of beings and things, and which is continually modifying and transforming them, one can search for a truer, more essential character, which the artist will seize so that he may give to reality a more lasting interpretation. p. 37”

“Rules have no existence outside of individuals: otherwise a good professor would be as great a genius as Racine . p. 2”

“I see with horror that the 'Salon Automne' is looming, for I haven't got, and shan't have, all I meant to be able to show there, the big stillife ['Harmony in Red'] has taken up so much of my time; but since I am content with the outcome, I tell myself one can't hope to be fast as well as good. Letter to Sergei Shchukin [the Russian buyer of his still”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher”

“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”

“He doesn't believe that public swimming”

“I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation”

“The shadow of a dove Falls on the cote, the trees are filled with wings; And down the valley through the crying trees The body of the darker storm flies; brings With its new air the breath of sunken seas And slender tenuous thunder . . . But I wait . . . Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain”

“Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter... And the rain and over the fields a voice calling...”

“There are no second acts in American lives. The Last Tycoon , "Hollywood, ETC.," ed. Edmund Wilson”

“The rich are different.”

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. "The Rich Boy" (1926), paragraph 3.”

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way. "Amory Blaine" in This Side of Paradise (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5”

“Nota: Comentario de Manet a Antonin Proust en 1862.”

“Oh exalted unity! Oh that which is one/for all!/Love against space and time!”

“I love César Vallejo. When I read his poems, I feel so sad. [laughter] Claribel Alegría Interview”

“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies. p. 51”

“Los intelectuales son rebeldes, pero no revolucionarios. Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries. p. 18”