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

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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Life
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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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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. – Oscar Wilde

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Poetry
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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. – Laurie Lee

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Poetry

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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Poetry

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. – Russell Baker

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