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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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. – Oscar Wilde

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde

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All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I dont like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. – Will Cuppy

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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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