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
running hands imagination
The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.
hands next-day pay
I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.
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.
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.
country giving-up hands
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.
humanity causes communism
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
special ordinary politeness
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
kind poet
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
imagination vision artistic
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
lasts periods
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
age aging closing
Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.
hollywood absolutes
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
sex writing unattractive
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.