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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
The vilest deeds...
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The vilest deeds like poison-weeds
Bloom well in prison-air;
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and withers there:
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate
And the warder is Despair.
Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Pt V. 5
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.