Quote by Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poe

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know loves tragedies. – Oscar Wilde

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Devotion
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry

Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. – Terri Guillemets, “From the Library to the Park,” 1993

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Poetry

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. – Robinson Jeffers

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