“He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.”

—  James Joyce , book Dubliners

"A Little Cloud"
Dubliners (1914)

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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