Wilde, verified
"It is clear that art has at last reached the criminal classes."
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"As a writer he has mastered everything, except language; as a novelist he can do everything, except tell a story; as an artist he is everything, except articulate."
"It has been said of him, and with truth, that he is a master of language, but with still greater truth it may be said that Language is his master."
"He has nothing to say and says it."
"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always valueless."
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."