"The poet is the supreme artist, for..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.”

“A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.”

“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936”

“If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.”

“The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”

“The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.”