Lionel Trilling

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal…

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

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every…

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he…

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do…

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep…

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on…