Wilde, verified
"She refused to sandpaper her muse."
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Every quote →"In her very rejection of art she was an artist."
"We have a few rose-leaves out of her garden, that is all."
"In our eagerness to find a new voice and a fresh mode of music, we have forgotten how beautiful Echo may be."
"Poetry is for our highest moods, when we wish to be with the gods, and in our poetry nothing but the very best should satisfy us; but prose is for our daily bread, and the lack of good prose is one of the chief blots on our culture."
"Old fashions in literature are not so pleasant as old fashions in dress."