Lionel Trilling Quotes

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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling quote.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
— Lionel Trilling

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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. - Lionel Trilling quote.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
— Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. - Lionel Trilling quote.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
— Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination

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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 quote.
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 The Liberal Imagination

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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. - Lionel Trilling quote.
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling

literature

The poet, it is true, is an effect of environment, but we must remember that he is no less a cause.  He may be used as the barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. - Lionel Trilling quote.
The poet, it is true, is an effect of environment, but we must remember that he is no less a cause.  He may be used as the barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
— Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination

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