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Edward Dahlberg
The newspaper has...
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to...
The Americans have...
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
Source: Alms for...
The bad poet...
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
Source: The Carnal Myth, ch. 5...
The ancients understood...
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
The earnings of...
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
When one realizes...
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
One of the...
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a...
Every decision you...
Every decision you make is a mistake.
Source: In
Writing is conscience,...
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Source: Alms for...
It is very...
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies,...
Herman Melville was...
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great...
Intellectual sodomy, which...
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as...
Ambition is a...
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is...
Man hoards himself...
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
Source: Reasons of the Heart, ...
Everything ultimately fails,...
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical...
No country has...
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the...
Look at this...
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent...
Genius, like truth,...
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Source: Alms for Oblivion, ...
There is a...
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world...
Hardly a book...
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned,...