"My father loved poetry and music. But deep……" — George Steiner
"My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in…
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
— Honore de Balzac
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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they…
— John Banville
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Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a…
— Roseanne Barr
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
— Saint Basil
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
— Martha Beck
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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