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

— Oscar Wilde

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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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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