Quote by Oscar Wilde
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

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. – Oscar Wilde

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Marriage
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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Public
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Poetry
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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Poetry

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, its just obtuse to them. Its hard to relate to. – Jewel

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Poetry

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Poetry

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Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality. – Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. – John Keats

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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. – Indra Nooyi

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