“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.” MindSawsGreaterConstitutionTendenciesPoetry IsFacultyIndigenous Book:Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.) Source: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)
“We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.” IfsMindDoeArtReadingMistakeVirtueJudgingDemandPerceptionErrorsCriticsWorth Reading Author:Lionel Trilling
“We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.” ThinkingMindLittlesEnoughHandsSeemsUnderstandingQualityWorstHonestBearsLateStupidityClockToo LateLegendsRighteousFinestWrathUrgencyNever Too LateBewilderedSense Of UrgencyBaudelaireMoralizing Author:Lionel Trilling
“Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.” MindKindImaginationPolitician Book:The Liberal Imagination Source: The Liberal Imagination
