Lionel Trilling

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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