Margaret Anderson
Margaret Anderson
Margaret Caroline Andersonwas the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot in the United States, and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel, Ulysses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth24 November 1886
CountryUnited States of America
We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.
I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.
I was feeling a bit nervous until I came along today. But now I'm looking forward to the shows so much.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there,