What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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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 may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling
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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