“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes

Leader of the Band.
Song lyrics, The Innocent Age (1981)

"To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" (1852), stanza 1

Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
Spring Scatters Far and Wide, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 53.