O PROJECTO

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistable. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry they dare not realize.

[The Picture of Dorian Gray]

Nos próximos dias será assim. Estou com pouco tempo e energia para escrever, e calhou estar a descobrir Oscar Wilde no ano (na semana mesmo) do 150º aniversário do seu nascimento. Parece-me uma óptima altura para fazer aquilo que qualquer seu leitor faz, ou seja, citá-lo diariamente.