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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Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. – Oscar Wilde

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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I was trained as an actress. But I wasnt a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. – Jenny Eclair

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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. – Jeffery Deaver

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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