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A poet can survive anything but a misprint. - Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive anything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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Torture
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Oscar Wilde
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

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Life
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Oscar Wilde
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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I am grateful for – though I cant keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. – A. R. Ammons

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Poetry

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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Poetry

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry

There is often as much poetry between the lines of a poem as in those lines. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

Random Quotes

Its funny, because I sometimes feel that Im most creative when Im pregnant. – Georgina Chapman

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funny

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. – Emile Zola

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Truth

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. – Joan D. Vinge

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Science

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. – Timothy Garton Ash

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communication