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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

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

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Beauty
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Oscar Wilde
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. – Oscar Wilde

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Friendship
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Im sure I dont know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldnt like to. – Oscar Wilde

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Hospitality
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I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no ones done it this way. – Kenny Loggins

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand, 1851

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Poetry

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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Poetry

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. – Rowan D. Williams

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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968

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