If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. – Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination. – Edmund Wilson
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. – Edmund Wilson
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution. – Henri Frederic Amiel