Despised poetry - Oscar Wilde

One could say that the British writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was not a big fan of Alexander Pope’s (1688-1744) poetry, despite the fact that Pope was an eminent English poet.

On one occasion, Wilde wrote:

“There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.”

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I became the spendthrift of my own genius – Oscar Wilde

In 1882, when he traveled to the United States due to a lecture that he was supposed to hold, U.S. customs officials stopped writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

- Sir, you have something to report? – he was asked.

- I have nothing – Wilde said - except my genius!

Years later, poor and abandoned, finding himself in prison, Oscar Wilde was thinking about his dissolute life and behavior.

“I became the spendthrift of my own genius”, he wrote. “I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character...”

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