Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilsonwas an American writer and critic who notably explored Freudian and Marxian themes. He influenced many American fiction-writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth8 May 1895
CountryUnited States of America
night luminous keep-going
Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
dog poodles funny-business
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
country mistake europe
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
art believe giving
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.
hands ideas advice
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.
life heart fire
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
art appearance tricks
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
hate fool paper
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
thinking hands
I think with my right hand.
fall hands insult
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
inspirational education learning
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
art ignorance taste
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
real europe cities
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation
book
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.