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Oscar Wilde’s Letter to Walt Whitman
Partial transcript from The Library of Congress: Before I leave America I must see you again–there is no one in this wide great world of America whom I love and honour so much. With warm affection,...
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“The Model Millionaire”— Oscar Wilde
“The Model Millionaire” by Oscar Wilde Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be...
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“The Happy Prince”— Oscar Wilde
“The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright...
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“The Star-Child”— Oscar Wilde
“The Star-Child” by Oscar Wilde Once upon a time two poor Woodcutters were making their way home through a great pine-forest. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow lay thick upon the...
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Oscar Wilde at Work — Aubrey Beardsley
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“A picture has no meaning but its beauty, no message but its joy” (Oscar Wilde)
We never know what an artist is going to do. Of course not. The artist is not a specialist. All such divisions as animal painters, landscape painters, painters of Scotch cattle in an English mist,...
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“Mankind is accursed because our existence on this earth does not tolerate...
Memories! Mankind is accursed because our existence on this earth does not tolerate any well-defined and stable hierarchy, everything continually flows, spills over, moves on, everyone must be aware of...
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“To Read or Not to Read”— Oscar Wilde
“To Read or Not to Read” by Oscar Wilde Books, I fancy, may be conveniently divided into three classes: 1. Books to read, such as Cicero’s Letters, Suetonius, Vasari’s Lives of the Painters, the...
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Illustration for Oscar Wilde’s Salome — John Vassos
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“Art does not address herself to the specialist” (Oscar Wilde)
The appeal of all Art is simply to the artistic temperament. Art does not address herself to the specialist. Her claim is that she is universal, and that in all her manifestations she is one....
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Oscar Wilde’s Cigarette Case
This silver cigarette case was presented by Bosie Douglas to his disgraced lover, Oscar Wilde. To launch Gilbert and Sullivan’s latest operetta Patience in America – a satire on Aestheticism – the...
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More colour is wanted (Oscar Wilde)
You have too many white walls. More colour is wanted. You should have such men as Whistler among you to teach you the beauty and joy of colour. Take Mr. Whistler’s ‘Symphony in White,’ which you no...
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Lying is the proper aim of Art (Oscar Wilde)
CYRIL. …I want you to tell me briefly the doctrines of the new aesthetics. VIVIAN. Briefly, then, they are these. Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as...
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My first meeting with Oscar Wilde was an astonishment (W.B. Yeats)
My first meeting with Oscar Wilde was an astonishment. I never before heard a man talking with perfect sentences, as if he had written them all over night with labour and yet all spontaneous. There...
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Pain wears no mask (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. What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and...
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Cowboy Oscar Wilde — Michael Kupperman
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“The Disciple”— Oscar Wilde
“The Disciple” by Oscar Wilde When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might...
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