Poetry Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

— Oscar Wilde

“To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor”

— Oscar Wilde

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

— Oscar Wilde

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde

“The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When man acts he is a puppet. When he describes he is a poet.”

— Oscar Wilde

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

— Oscar Wilde

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

— Oscar Wilde

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and…

— Oscar Wilde

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of…

— Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

— Oscar Wilde

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere…

— Oscar Wilde

“With slouch and swing around the ring We trod the Fools’ Parade! We did not care: we knew we were The Devils’…

— Oscar Wilde

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays?…

— Oscar Wilde

“I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend upon it for their daily bread, and the…

— Oscar Wilde

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the…

— Oscar Wilde

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence…

— Oscar Wilde

“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and…

— Oscar Wilde

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no…

— Oscar Wilde

“tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle…

— Oscar Wilde

“And now, let us go out on the terrace where 'droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,' while the evening star 'washes…

— Oscar Wilde

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal…

— Oscar Wilde

“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most…

— Oscar Wilde

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and…

— Oscar Wilde

Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.…

— Oscar Wilde

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be…

— Oscar Wilde

“When Marsyas was 'torn from the scabbard of his limbs' - DELLA VAGINA DELLA MEMBRE SUE, to use one of Dante's most…

— Oscar Wilde

“The storm of revolution,’ as Andre Chenier said, ‘blows out the torch of poetry.’ It is not for some little time that…

— Oscar Wilde

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left…

— Oscar Wilde

“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work…

— Oscar Wilde

“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You…

— Oscar Wilde

“Nor is it again that the novel has killed the play, as some critics would persuade us - the romantic movement of…

— Oscar Wilde

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into…

— Oscar Wilde