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

Quote by James Joyce about poetry, common sense, sense

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about aspiration

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about sleep, wealth, being, contentment

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war, man, nothing