“If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity. Keats’s grave is a hillock of green grass with a plain headstone, and is to me the holiest place in Rome.”
— Oscar Wilde
Source: letter to the Rev. J. Page Hopps, 14 January 1885
“If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.” — Oscar Wilde Click To Tweet