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Quote DB :: Authors :: Lionel Trilling :: View Quote View Quote "The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Lionel Trilling Listed in: Poetry Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.67  Rate Quote 3 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Lionel Trilling There are no quotes for chosen author Top 5 quotes from Poetry "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." "The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

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