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Lionel Trilling
Youth is a...
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Source: In...
A primary function...
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the...
Immature artists imitate....
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Source: Esquire Magazine,...
What marks the...
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Where misunderstanding serves...
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself...
This is the...
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with...
The poet is...
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his...
There is no...
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the...
Literature is the...
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility,...
Our culture peculiarly...
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and...
Youth is a...
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Source: In...
A primary function...
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the...
Immature artists imitate....
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Source: Esquire Magazine,...
What marks the...
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Where misunderstanding serves...
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself...
This is the...
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with...
The poet is...
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his...
There is no...
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the...
Literature is the...
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility,...
Our culture peculiarly...
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and...