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

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.”

— Oscar Wilde

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory,…

— Kelly Osbourne

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

— Seamus Heaney

What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience…

— Anonymous

Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

— Oscar Wilde

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself…

— Oscar Wilde

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a…

— Thomas de Quincey

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

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

— Oscar Wilde

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

— Bob Hope

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

— Paul Bley

“I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had.”

— Kimberly Lauren