Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg: The newspaper has...

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...

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Edward Dahlberg: The Americans have...

Edward Dahlberg: The Americans have...

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Source: Alms for...

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Edward Dahlberg: The bad poet...

Edward Dahlberg: The bad poet...

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

Source: The Carnal Myth, ch. 5...

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Edward Dahlberg: The ancients understood...

Edward Dahlberg: The ancients understood...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: The earnings of...

Edward Dahlberg: The earnings of...

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

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Edward Dahlberg: When one realizes...

Edward Dahlberg: When one realizes...

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

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Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a...

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Edward Dahlberg: Every decision you...

Edward Dahlberg: Every decision you...

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Edward Dahlberg: Writing is conscience,...

Edward Dahlberg: Writing is conscience,...

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Source: Alms for...

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Edward Dahlberg: It is very...

Edward Dahlberg: It is very...

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies,...

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Edward Dahlberg: Herman Melville was...

Edward Dahlberg: Herman Melville was...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: Intellectual sodomy, which...

Edward Dahlberg: Intellectual sodomy, which...

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as...

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Edward Dahlberg: Ambition is a...

Edward Dahlberg: 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...

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Edward Dahlberg: Man hoards himself...

Edward Dahlberg: Man hoards himself...

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Source: Reasons of the Heart, ...

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Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical...

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Edward Dahlberg: No country has...

Edward Dahlberg: No country has...

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the...

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Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent...

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Edward Dahlberg: Genius, like truth,...

Edward Dahlberg: Genius, like truth,...

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

Source: Alms for Oblivion, ...

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Edward Dahlberg: There is a...

Edward Dahlberg: There is a...

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world...

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Edward Dahlberg: Hardly a book...

Edward Dahlberg: 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,...

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