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

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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde

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Be Yourself
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Oscar Wilde
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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

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Prison
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Oscar Wilde
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Poetry
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Ive always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I dont think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. – Justin Townes Earle

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Poetry

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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