Books Quote by George Steiner

“But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward manifestation of…

— George Steiner

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

— George Steiner

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an…

— George Steiner

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter…

— George Steiner

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it…

— George Steiner

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living…

— George Steiner

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or…

— George Steiner

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes…

— George Steiner

To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the…

— George Steiner

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

— George Steiner

“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations…

— George Steiner

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

— George Steiner