“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.” — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“This is my book, and in my book my soul With its two woven threads of joy and pain, And both were yours before… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“What shall I say, what word, what cry recall, What god invoke, what charm, what amulet, To make a sonnet pay a hopeless debt, Or heal a bruised soul with a madrigal? O vanity of words! my cup of gall O'erflows with this, I have no phrase to set, And all my agony and bloody sweat Comes to this issue… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share
“The average woman is far braver than the average man. The common kind of courage-that of the soldier who disregards the danger of death-belongs to the majority of men in the last resort. I mean that if it has to be exercised they exercise it without making a fuss about it. But when you come to moral courage it hardly… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share
“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.” — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“I have often behaved badly and I have often behaved foolishly; but, as it happens, I find that on the whole, the things that… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The poet wishes to strike beautiful notes, not new notes... To ask or expect a poet to strike a new note in poetry is… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“He (Wilde) did succeed in weaving spells. One sat and listened to him enthralled. It all appeared to be Wisdom and Power and Beauty… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“I defy anyone who retains the least spark of honour to spit on the real, essential love of one human being for another.” — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
