Lionel Trilling Quotes

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

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. - Lionel Trilling

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

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

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. - Lionel Trilling

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

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

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. - 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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