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Quotation by Oscar Wilde
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Dramatic Review (London, Feb. 20, 1886)A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated Saturday Review (London, Nov. 17, 1894)Algernon, in The Importance of Being EarnestAlgernon, in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)"Aristotle at Afternoon Tea" Pall Mall Gazette (London, February 28, 1885)
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2, published in Intentions (1891).
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