51 Quotes by Edmund Wilson

No two persons ever read the same book.

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The celebration of current battles by poets who have not taken part in them has produced some of the emptiest verse that exists.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

No two person, ever read the same book.

No hay dos personas que lean el mismo libro.

She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.