Edmund Wilson Quotes

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. - Edmund Wilson

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. - Edmund Wilson

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg. - Edmund Wilson

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. - Edmund Wilson

No two persons ever read the same book. - Edmund Wilson

No two people read the same book. - Edmund Wilson

No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras. - Edmund Wilson

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. - 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

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