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George Steiner Quotes

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this Picture Quote #1

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war Picture Quote #1

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light Picture Quote #1

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital Picture Quote #1

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform Picture Quote #1

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness Picture Quote #1

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past Picture Quote #1

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity Picture Quote #1

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book Picture Quote #1

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain Picture Quote #1

The calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other Picture Quote #1

When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world Picture Quote #1

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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely Picture Quote #1

Language is the main instrument of man’s refusal to accept the world as it is Picture Quote #1

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory Picture Quote #1

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do Picture Quote #1

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives Picture Quote #1

I’m sorry, I’m absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs Picture Quote #1

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I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right Picture Quote #1

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward Picture Quote #1

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do Picture Quote #1

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate Picture Quote #1

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language Picture Quote #1

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease Picture Quote #1

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I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this (George Steiner Quotes) To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war (George Steiner Quotes) The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light (George Steiner Quotes) The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital (George Steiner Quotes) The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform (George Steiner Quotes) To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness (George Steiner Quotes) It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past (George Steiner Quotes) The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity (George Steiner Quotes) The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book (George Steiner Quotes) Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain (George Steiner Quotes) The calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other (George Steiner Quotes) When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world (George Steiner Quotes) Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely (George Steiner Quotes) Language is the main instrument of man’s refusal to accept the world as it is (George Steiner Quotes) The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory (George Steiner Quotes) Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do (George Steiner Quotes) My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives (George Steiner Quotes) I’m sorry, I’m absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs (George Steiner Quotes) I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right (George Steiner Quotes) I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward (George Steiner Quotes) My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do (George Steiner Quotes) Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate (George Steiner Quotes) I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language (George Steiner Quotes) It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease (George Steiner Quotes)

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