Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlbergwas an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1900
wise horse writing
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
marriage smart men
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
writing humiliation
To write is a humiliation.
poetry earning poet
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
strength crazy roots
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.
book writing scott-fitzgerald
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.
chance enough accepting
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
assuming coarse endeavor
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
genius neglected shabby
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
mimicking toady poet
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
strength men sea
Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.
love men want-something
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
imagination worry together
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
sex men animal
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.