The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Edmund WilsonThe product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Edmund WilsonHis style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Edmund WilsonThe only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, โnotwithstanding,โ in the long run remakes the world.
Edmund Wilson