"I now see that sorrow, being the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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“No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.”
“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”
“I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful”
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“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.”
“Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.”
“He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]”
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“Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?”
“Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.”
“For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.”