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
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.
country giving-up hands
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.
artistic imagination product relations scientific vision
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.
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.
imagination vision artistic
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
lasts periods
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
marxism opium
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
age aging closing
Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.