"The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was
it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue:
sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves,
the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was
the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the
rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend
and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of
mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible
world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied
than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions
mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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