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Lionel Trilling Quotes


An American literary critic, author, and teacher.
Lionel Trilling (born Lionel Mordecai Trilling, 4 July 1905 – 5 November 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. With wife Diana Trilling, he was a member of The New York Intellectuals and contributor to the Partisan Review; although he did not establish a school of literary criticism, he is one of the great U.S. critics of the twentieth century in tracing the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature, and has been a subject of continued interest, unlike many of his contemporaries.

Here are some famous quotes by Lionel Trilling.

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

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

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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.

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The poet is in command of his fantasy while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.