| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31676 |
| QUOTATION: | 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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