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[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] 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.

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

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

American Critic

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. - George Steiner Quotes

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

Pornography Privacy

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. - George Steiner Quotes

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

American Critic Language

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless. - George Steiner Quotes

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. - George Steiner Quotes

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

American Critic

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

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.

Past

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. - George Steiner Quotes

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

American Critic Men

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. - George Steiner Quotes

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

American Critic Men

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. - George Steiner Quotes

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

American Critic Lies And Lying

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