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> [When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/when-i-was-a-graduate-student-the-leading-spirits-at-harvard-were/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

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## More by M. H. Abrams

> [If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/if-you-read-quickly-to-get-through-a-poem-to-what-it-means-you-have/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/we-are-human-and-nothing-is-more-interesting-to-us-than-humanity-the/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/life-without-literature-is-a-life-reduced-to-penury/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/we-are-human-and-nothing-is-more-interesting-to-us-than-humanity/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/it-s-amazing-how-age-after-age-in-country-after-country-and-in-all/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/i-think-the-hardest-thing-to-teach-a-student-is-that-what-he-or-she/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/the-survival-of-artistic-modes-in-which-we-recognize-ourselves/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/we-worked-on-solving-the-problem-of-voice-communications-in-a-noisy/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/at-first-students-tend-to-freeze-at-the-first-effort-the-breakthrough/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/if-you-learn-one-thing-from-having-lived-through-decades-of-changing/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/if-you-don-t-set-your-writing-teaching-at-a-level-that-makes-them/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/when-i-was-a-graduate-student-the-leading-spirits-at-harvard-were/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/when-something-startlingly-new-comes-up-young-people-especially-seize/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/hard-work-makes-easy-reading-or-at-least-easier-reading/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

> [Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/life-without-literature-is-a-life-reduced-to-penury-it-expands-you-in/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

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