“I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip.”

“I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip.”

— Oscar Wilde

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Title: Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde
Type: reference · Secondary source
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Context

In a journal or later note by George Cecil Ives recording a meeting with Wilde in 1900, Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations (Cambridge University Press,1996), John Stokes

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Wilde, Oscar. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

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