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Lionel Trilling Quotes

The immature artist imitates. 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

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

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. - Lionel Trilling

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