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

A mans face is his autobiography. A womans face is her work of fiction. – Oscar Wilde

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. – Oscar Wilde

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. – Eugenio Montale

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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