Lionel Trilling's Quotes

Lionel Trilling's Quotes 18

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also...

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused...

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and...

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon....

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every...

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the...

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

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

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

The poet may be used as a barometer but let us not forget that he is also...

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused...

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and...

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon....

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

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every...

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

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