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

It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. – Oscar Wilde

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Hope
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Aristocracy
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde

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Romance
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

Category:
Poetry

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo

Category:
Poetry

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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Poetry

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He was ever precise in promise-keeping. – William Shakespeare

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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. – Albert Einstein

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Ive completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and Im doing lots of volume for strength. – Jonathan Brown

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strength