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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky:

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free.

The light that never was, on sea or land,

Earth has not anything to show more fair:

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Do you want to know the great drama of my life? It’s that I have put my genius into my life; all I’ve put into my works is my talent.

You should study the Peerage, Gerald … It is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.