I can resist everything except temptation
Posted: October 16, 2012 Filed under: ART, WRITERS | Tags: 1854, a lord of language, De Profundis, great Irish writers, Irish dramatists, Irish Writers, October 16, Oscar Wilde birthday, Rupert Everett, sorrow and beauty Leave a commentOne of my favourite writers, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born today. 20 years ago I visited his grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. I wanted to somehow be close to the man who had given me so much joy. Dear Oscar, we love you so, you are gone but never forgotten.
“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything”