"The great poet is always a seer,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“Music is the perfect type of art.”

“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”

“What poet would not grieve to seeHis brother write as well as he?But rather than they should excel,He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.”

“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”

“Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?”

“The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.”

“The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.”

“I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.”