| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31675 |
| QUOTATION: | The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life—the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet is intense—the life of Blake or of Dante—taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. address to the Literary and Historical Society of University College (1902); published in St. Stephen’s magazine, May 1902. “James Clarence Mangan,” The Critical Writings, eds. Richard Ellmann and Ellsworth Mason, Viking (1959).
Joyce later included a version of the passage in his unfinished novel, Stephen Hero. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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