Edmund Wilson Quotes

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Income, Nothing)

"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Imagination, Vision)

"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Genius, Will)

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Intellectuals, Marxism, Opium)

"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Imagination, Society, Possibility)

"I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind."
- Edmund Wilson

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Life, Style)

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Hollywood)

"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."
- Edmund Wilson
(Related: Food, Peace, Heart, Safety)