Edith Wharton Quotes About Literature
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
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Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.
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...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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