Quotes about Lionel Trilling

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can...

#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...

#Lionel Trilling

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

#Lionel Trilling

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

#Lionel Trilling

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

#Lionel Trilling

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

#Lionel Trilling

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of...

#Lionel Trilling

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of...

#Lionel Trilling