Quotes by Edith Wharton
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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.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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