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
artistic imagination product relations scientific vision
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.
imagination vision artistic
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
art believe giving
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.
art appearance tricks
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
art ignorance taste
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
life style orchestra
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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.
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.
imagination possibility humans
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
special ordinary politeness
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
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.
kind poet
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
lasts periods
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
marxism opium
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.