{"id":1182,"date":"2004-06-16T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T21:38:38","slug":"bloomsday-joyce-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Joyce and Love: It Will Spoil His Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Joyce&#8217;s brother Stanislaus repeats the following anecdote &#8211; dating from Joyce&#8217;s time in college.  Skeffington, a friend and intellectual jousting partner of Joyce, asked Joyce if he had ever been in love.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joyce replied with an evasive shift of tense, &#8220;How would I write the most perfect love songs of our time if I were in love?  A poet must always write about a past or a future emotion, never about a present one.  If it is a regular, right-down, honest-to-God &#8217;till-death-do-us-part&#8217; affair, it will get out of hand and spoil his verse.  Poetry must have a safety valve properly adjusted.  A poet&#8217;s job is to write tragedies, not to be an actor in one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce&#8217;s brother Stanislaus repeats the following anecdote &#8211; dating from Joyce&#8217;s time in college. Skeffington, a friend and intellectual jousting partner of Joyce, asked Joyce if he had ever been in love. Joyce replied with an evasive shift of tense, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17044,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/17044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}