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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.

~Lionel Trilling

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

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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 function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

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

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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.

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

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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 4th, 1905

Died: November 5th, 1975

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