Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. — Edward Dahlberg Ancestor Copy Share Image
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. — Edward Dahlberg Bookkeepers Copy Share Image
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see. — Edward Dahlberg Confidence Copy Share Image
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg Artist Copy Share Image
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. — Edward Dahlberg America 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice,… — Edward Dahlberg Companion Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.” — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes? — Edward Dahlberg Credit Copy Share Image
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. — Edward Dahlberg Communication Copy Share Image
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. — Edward Dahlberg Animal Copy Share Image
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. — Edward Dahlberg Character Copy Share Image
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. — Edward Dahlberg Character Copy Share Image
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
