At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
– Edmund Wilson
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
– Edmund Wilson
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
No two persons ever read the same book.
– Edmund Wilson
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
– Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
– Edmund Wilson
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.