Quotes Lionel Trilling

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are...

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in wh...

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal....

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspens...

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not ma...

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it t...

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutiona...

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has b...

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal....

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly t...

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget t...

There is no connection between the political ideas of our ed...

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned ...

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an ide...

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form...

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are ou...

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of ...

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is...

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

"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly ...