30 Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don’t live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

There is no stopping the world’s tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.