65 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.