{"quotes":[{"text":"A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.","author":"Declan Kiberd","tags":["fiction","james-joyce","joyce","literature","ulysses"],"id":1072,"author_id":"Declan+Kiberd"},{"text":"A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase 'I love you,' it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz.","author":"James Lee Schmidt","tags":["abstract","art","artist","books","edit","editor","humor","i-love-you","instagram","instagram","instaquote","james-joyce","life","literature","love","paint","painting","picture","relationships","surreal","ulysses","visual","write","writer","writing"],"id":24532,"author_id":"James+Lee+Schmidt"},{"text":"Beneath it allI kept faith with Ithaca, travelled,Travelled and travelled,Suffering much, enjoying a little;Met strange people singingNew myths; made myths myself.But this lion of the seaSalt-maned, scaly, wondrous of tail,Touched with power, insistentOn this brief promontory...Puzzles.","author":"Edwin Thumboo","tags":["edwin-thumboo","merlion","poem","poet","poetry","singapore","singapore-pioneer-poet","singapore-poet","ulysses"],"id":67442,"author_id":"Edwin+Thumboo"},{"text":"The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...","author":"James Joyce","tags":["beer","drinking","ulysses"],"id":119503,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it? I suspect it was a bit of a joke by Joyce. He just kept his mouth shut as people read into it more then there was. Pseudo-intellectuals love to drop the name Ulysses as their favorite book. I refused to be intellectually bullied into finishing it.","author":"Michael Finkel","tags":["books","joyce","ulysses"],"id":135100,"author_id":"Michael+Finkel"},{"text":"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["literature","molly-bloom","sensuality","ulysses","woman"],"id":143865,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untraveled world whose margin fadesForever and forever when I move.How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!As though to breathe were life!","author":"Alfred Tennyson","tags":["adventure","travel","ulysses"],"id":147877,"author_id":"Alfred+Tennyson"},{"text":"Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.","author":"Alfred Tennyson","tags":["ageing","poetry","rumpole","tennyson","ulysses"],"id":155825,"author_id":"Alfred+Tennyson"},{"text":"Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.","author":"Alfred Tennyson","tags":["age","heroism","poetry","ulysses"],"id":177856,"author_id":"Alfred+Tennyson"},{"text":"I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["america","immigration","joyce","ulysses"],"id":213613,"author_id":"James+Joyce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}