Edmund Wilson

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. ”

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. ”

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ”

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. ”

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. ”

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. ”