Quote#God & Faith
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy…
Quote byJames Joyce · 1882–1941
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dubliners (1914), "A Little Cloud".
English (original)
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.
— James Joyce
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