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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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.Lionel Trilling
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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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.
Lionel Trilling
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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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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A theory of the middle class that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.
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