About Edmund Wilson: Edmund Wilson was an American writer, literary and social critic, and man of letters.
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.
Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.
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.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
No two persons ever read the same book.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
No two person, ever read the same book.
