Poetry Quote by Oscar Wilde — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is.”

“With slouch and swing around the ring”

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”

“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life”

“grief is a house”

“some men never”

“Immortal amarant, a flower which once”

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

“Everything is temporary,”