Oscar Wilde Quotes About Poetry
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
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