Oscar Wilde quoteOscar Wilde [1854-1900]
Irish Poet (with poems) 
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| Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. |
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