Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854-November 30, 1900) was an Irish poet whose works include: Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892; A Woman of No Importance, 1893; An Ideal Husband, 1895; and The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895. He edited the journal Woman's World. In the Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898, Pt. V, st. 14, Oscar Wilde stated:
<How else but through a broken heart
May the Lord Christ enter in?> 1854OW001
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1854OW001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, 1898, in the Ballad of Reading Gaol, Pt. V, st. 14. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 676.