Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling


Lionel Trilling - The Liberal Imagination (1950)
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Lionel Trilling - The Liberal Imagination (1950)
- The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

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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.