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

Lionel Trilling in The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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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 in The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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