"The poet is in command of his fantasy,……" — Lionel Trilling

"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

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36 Quotes by Lionel Trilling

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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas…
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the…
At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it…

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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. — Saint Augustine
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite… — Honore de Balzac
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied… — Tyra Banks
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as… — Jack Black
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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