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

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – 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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A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valéry

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. – Jacques Derrida

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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. – Mark Strand

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran

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