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Quote by Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. - Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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Death
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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Hunting
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde

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War
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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. – Michael Tippett

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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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Poetry

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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Poetry

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. – Wilfred Owen

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Poetry

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