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Lionel Trilling quotes: Immature artists imitate.Mature artists steal.

Immature artists imitate.
Mature artists steal.

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

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

Lionel Trilling quotes: Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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

Lionel Trilling quotes: I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

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

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

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

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Lionel Trilling quotes: The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling quotes: Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling quotes: Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

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

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

Lionel Trilling quotes: There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

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

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

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

Lionel Trilling quotes: It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling quotes: The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

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 quotes: Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

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

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

Lionel Trilling quotes: After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

Lionel Trilling quotes: We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

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 quotes: We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

Lionel Trilling quotes: The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling quotes: Perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful ...

Perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful ...

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

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

Lionel Trilling quotes: Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Lionel Trilling quotes: In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.