One should always be in love.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.