"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies."
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Source: Edmund Wilson (1952). “The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties”
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