Oscar Wilde Quotes About Poetry

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Best Friend

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Book, Reading

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

• He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Writing, Poetry

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.121, Oscar Wilde

• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Writing, Perfection

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

• There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Poetry, Way

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

• And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

  Oscar Wilde

  Healing, Blood, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

• Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lakes, Poetry, Stones

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.77, Courier Corporation

• Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drunk, Poetry, Personality

• The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, Poetry

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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