Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlbergwas an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1900
mistake world pay
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?
men great-men johnson
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
strength crazy roots
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.
poetry earning poet
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
writing humiliation
To write is a humiliation.
country oregon apples
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
marriage smart men
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
wise horse writing
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
narcissus wells
Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.
men faults no-confidence
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
fall night men
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
imagination people criticism
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
intelligent simple intellectual
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
work ocean ambition
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.