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

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. – Oscar Wilde

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Integrity
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde

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great
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. – Oscar Wilde

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Marriage
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Poetry
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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. – Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957

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Poetry

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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Poetry

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Acting is something I love. Its a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I dont think its any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me. – Hugh Jackman

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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes

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