We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain. — Ihab Hassan Copy Share
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. — Ihab Hassan Copy Share
