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

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde

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I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. – Janine Turner

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – William Shenstone

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. – Lafcadio Hearn

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