Quotes by Trilling, Lionel

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. >>

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals i >>

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to mak >>

Quotations about Literature

The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, >>

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to rema >>

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled worl >>

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Trilling, Lionel