"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather." ― Lionel Trilling Topic(s): Politics More From Lionel Trilling "There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination." "We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health." "Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process." More In Politics "I don’t know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It’s very much about the class structure."― Daniel Radcliffe "The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren’t so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he’s a poet in black and white."― Jonathan Lethem "Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years."― Marc Andreessen