Quote #32
Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Art persists, it timelessly continues.
- Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes his biography.
- His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.
- Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
- It is always the unreadable that occurs.
- Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.