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Edmund Wilson quotes

American Critic May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972

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Edmund Wilson quote: "His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra..."
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Edmund Wilson
The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the writer who is to be anything more than an echo of his predecessors must always find expression for something which has never yet been expressed, must master a new set of phenomena. ... With each such victory of the human intellect, whether in history, in philosophy or in poetry, we experience a deep satisfaction: we have been cured of some ache of disorder,... Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the..."
...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time. Edmund Wilson
While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work. Edmund Wilson
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. Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "No two persons ever read the same book."
No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson
I had no premonition that the Soviet Union was to become one of the most hideous tyrannies that the world had ever known, and Stalin the most cruel and unscrupulous of the merciless Russian tsars. This book should therefore be read as a basically reliable account of what the revolutionists thought they were doing in the interests of a better world. Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the..."
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind."
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. Edmund Wilson
He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand. Edmund Wilson
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas. Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "The human imagination has already come to conceive the..."
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of..."
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any..."
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson quote: "There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate..."
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. Edmund Wilson

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