The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. — Edward Dahlberg Bookkeepers Copy Share Image
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. — Edward Dahlberg Ancestor Copy Share Image
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see. — Edward Dahlberg Confidence Copy Share Image
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. — Edward Dahlberg Achievement Copy Share Image
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy… — Edward Dahlberg Greatness Copy Share Image
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding… — Edward Dahlberg Beast Copy Share Image
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex… — Edward Dahlberg Decision Copy Share Image
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what… — Edward Dahlberg Ambition Copy Share Image
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Accidents Copy Share Image
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that… — Edward Dahlberg Bird Copy Share Image
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going… — Edward Dahlberg Apples Copy Share Image
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to… — Edward Dahlberg Animal Copy Share Image
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — Edward Dahlberg Atlantis Copy Share Image
Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them… — Edward Dahlberg Earth Copy Share Image
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which… — Edward Dahlberg Art Copy Share Image
